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Small Mediterranean plant containing a volatile oil once used to relieve toothache
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pellitory
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n. herb that grows in crevices having long narrow leaves and small pink apetalous flowers [syn: pellitory-of-the-wall , wall pellitory , Parietaria difussa ] small Mediterranean plant containing a volatile oil once used to relieve toothache [syn: pellitory-of-Spain ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pellitory \Pel"li*to*ry\, n. [Sp. pelitre, fr. L. pyrethrum. See Bertram .] (Bot.) A composite plant ( Anacyclus Pyrethrum ) of the Mediterranean region, having finely divided leaves and whitish flowers. The root is the officinal pellitory, and is used ...
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Pellitory may refer to: Anacyclus pyrethrum or pellitory, a plant containing an oil once used for toothaches and facial neuralgia Achillea ptarmica or European pellitory, bastard pellitory, or wild pellitory Parietaria debilis Parietaria officinalis or ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 pellitory of the wall ((taxlink Parietaria officinalis species noshow=1)). (from 15th c.) 2 Any plant of the genus ''Parietaria''. 3 # (taxlink Parietaria debilis species noshow=1) 4 # (taxlink Parietaria judaica species noshow=1) ((vern: ...
Usage examples of pellitory.
The tincture made from the dried root may be most helpfully applied on cotton wool to the interior of a decayed tooth which is aching, or the milder tincture of the wall Pellitory may be employed for the same purpose.
The numerous families of the pellitories, the chamomiles, the mesembryanthemums, pushed their varied and abundant tufts through the loop-holes in the walls, cracked and fissured in spite of their thickness.
His forehead dripped as a distillatory Were full of plantain and of pellitory.
A compound powder of the root (made of equal quantities of Bistort, Pellitory of Spain and burnt Allum made into a paste with a little honey and put in hollow of a tooth or at the side, eases their pain and stops the defluxion of rheum on the part cleanses the head and brain and causes evacuation of abundance of rheumatic matter.