Crossword clues for celandine
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Celandine \Cel"an*dine\ (s[e^]l"[a^]n*d[imac]n), n. [OE. celidoine, OF. celidoine, F. ch['e]lidoine, fr. L. chelidonia (sc. herba), fr. chelidonius pertaining to the swallow, Gr. chelido`nios, fr. chelidw`n the swallow, akin to L. hirundo a swallow.] (Bot.) A perennial herbaceous plant ( Chelidonium majus) of the poppy family, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine in jaundice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort.
Lasser celandine, the pilewort ( Ranunculus Ficaria).
Wiktionary
n. 1 Either of two unrelated flowering plants: 2 # The greater celandine ((taxlink Chelidonium majus species noshow=1)) 3 # The lesser celandine (''Ficaria verna'', formerly ''Ranunculus ficaria'')
WordNet
n. North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil [syn: jewelweed, lady's earrings, orange balsam, touch-me-not, Impatiens capensis]
perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers [syn: greater celandine, swallowwort, swallow wort, Chelidonium majus]
Wikipedia
Celandine ( or is a common name for three species of flowers:
- Chelidonium (Greater celandine), Chelidonium majus, in the poppy family
- Ficaria verna (Lesser celandine), Ranunculus ficaria, in the buttercup family
- Stylophorum diphyllum (Celandine-poppy), Stylophorum diphyllum, in the poppy family
Celandine may also refer to:
- Celandine (novel), a novel by Steve Augarde
- Celandine Brandybuck, a hobbit mentioned in J. R. R. Tolkien's works
- HMS Celandine
Celandine is a children's fantasy novel by Steve Augarde. It is the second book in the Touchstone Trilogy and was first published in 2006. Celandine is set ninety years before The Various, the first book of the trilogy. It follows the adventures of Celandine (born 1901) in the years 1914–1915, at the onset of World War I. Having run away from her detested boarding school, Celandine is too afraid to go home in case she is sent back. As she seeks shelter in the Wild Wood near her home, little does she think she will encounter a world where loyalty and independence is fiercely guarded, and where danger lurks in the most unlikely of places. Celandine's troubled character finds both refuge and purpose among the secret tribes of little people that she alone believes in.
Usage examples of "celandine".
Most of the flowers used for jaundice are yellow, like the Dandelion, Agrimony, Celandine, Hawkweed and Marigold.
The Pilewort, or lesser Celandine, bespangles all our banks with its brilliant, glossy, golden stars, coming into blossom on or about March 7th, St.
And the charm of the old manor around him, the garden with its grey stone walls and yew hedges--broad, broad yew hedges and a peacock pausing to glitter and scream in the busy silence of an English spring, when celandines open their yellow under the hedges, and violets are in the secret, and by the broad paths of the garden polyanthus and crocuses vary the velvet and flame, and bits of yellow wallflower shake raggedly, with a wonderful triumphance, out of the cracks of the wall.
Yellow celandines showed out from the hedge-bottoms, and in the cottage gardens of Willey Green, currant-bushes were breaking into leaf, and little flowers were coming white on the grey alyssum that hung over the stone walls.
Now I picked the creamy primroses and the nodding bluebells, bright celandine and hidden violets and forget-me-nots like pieces of fallen sky, for no other reason than that they were beautiful.
The hawthorn bushes were a young green, every hedge-root had its celandines and primroses, and there were thickets of sloe, white as if with linen laid out to bleach.
Yellow celandines showed out from the hedge-bottoms, and in the cottage gardens of Willey Green, currant-bushes were breaking into leaf, and little flowers were coming white on the grey alyssum that hung over the stone walls.
Most of the flowers used for jaundice are yellow, like the Dandelion, Agrimony, Celandine, Hawkweed and Marigold.
A Rose In Glass by Olivia Bennett, Union of Souls, The Valley Prince, A Voice From The Deep, Autumn Moon, The Song of Love, The Posy Bowl, Celandine in Love, Celandine At Home, The Unreasoning Heart .
The meadow is bare, but in a little while the heart-shaped celandine leaves will come in their accustomed place.
If any one had gone round the fields on old May-day, the 13th, _his_ May-day, they might have found the deep blue bird's-eye veronica, anemones, star-like stitchworts, cowslips, buttercups, lesser celandine, daisies, white blackthorn, and gorse in bloom--in short, a list enough to make a page bright with colour, though the wind might be bitter.
Dressed in a spangled gown, Celandine paraded, showing the audience a huge custard pie.
As they both jogged in track suits along punishingly steep footpaths, watching the first celandine and coltsfoot pushing their way through the leaf mould and the winter barley slowly turning the brown fields pale green, Lysander wished it was Arthur he was getting fit for the Rutminster Gold Cup rather than Marigold, but they made terrific progress.
Discounting the one singular image at the stone table--scientifically speaking an anomaly and therefore without interest--might not all these others be, oh, an ivy vine twisted into the shape of a claw-hand, light falling on a celandine so as to make a face?
Everywhere was colour: white-petalled wood anemone tinged with purple, golden celandine, mauve violets, snow-white wood sorrel, and the tall, glorious purple orchid with its black-spotted leaves and petals shaped like winged helms.