The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lady's mantle \La"dy's man"tle\ (l[=a]"d[i^]z m[a^]n"t'l). (Bot.) A genus of rosaceous herbs ( Alchemilla), esp. the European Alchemilla vulgaris, which has leaves with rounded and finely serrated lobes.
Wiktionary
n. The herb (taxlink Alchemilla vulgaris species noshow=1), or any plant in the genus ''Alchemilla''.
Usage examples of "lady's mantle".
In Britain, we have only three species, Alchemilla vulgaris, the Common Lady's Mantle, A.
Several gnarled wisewomen from the village examined Tallia and said that because of her illness her womb had withered and needed time to become fertile again, time together with various teas steeped in blind nettle and dittany, or a potion of Lady's Mantle, every woman's cloak against illnesses of the womb.
He strode easily around the interlaced curves of the garden, locating bittersweet, colt's foot and lady's mantle, harvesting them with a small crescent-shaped blade that was polished to a brilliant sheen, and black as midnight.
Tall roses, white and pink, mingled with lady's mantle and lavender to form the main garden, creating a myriad of shapes and colors that drew Meralda's eye upward and back down again.
For old Dame Lirel, who had been the boys' chief nurse up until the previous year and still kept their quarters tidy, they bought a length of sky-blue ribbon the color of the Lady's mantle.
The Common Lady's Mantle is generally distributed over Britain, but more especially in the colder districts and on high-lying ground, being found up to an altitude of 3,600 feet in the Scotch Highlands.