Crossword clues for dogbane
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dogbane \Dog"bane`\, n. [Said to be poisonous to dogs. Cf. Apocynaceous.] (Bot.) A small genus of perennial herbaceous plants, with poisonous milky juice, bearing slender pods pods in pairs.
Wiktionary
n. (context botany English) Any species of genus ''Apocynum'', eponymous of the dogbane family Apocynaceae
WordNet
n. any of several poisonous perennial plants of the genus Apocynum having acrid milky juice and bell-shaped white or pink flowers and a very bitter root
Wikipedia
Dogbane, Dog- bane, Dog's bane, and other variations, some of them regional and some transient, are names for certain plants that are reputed to kill or repel dogs; " bane" literally means "death".
Usage examples of "dogbane".
He could smell the woodsmoke from the Alengwyneh towns, and other familiar and disgusting odors: the body wastes, the sour, pulpy smell of garbage rotting outside their villages, the tangy stink of their tanneries, the rankling smell of their lime kilns and charcoal pits and the retting vats where they soaked flax and dogbane and heart-tree bark to make cloth fiber.
Adam told him that he could not cure his heart disease, but he suggested he keep dogbane or milkweed about.
It was entirely concerned with the affairs of things that grow and flourish in the bright sunlight, with the dogbane and the lily, the evening primrose and the silky foxglove and the yellow mustard tall beside the crabapple with its purple blossoms.