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Moschatel

Moschatel \Mos"cha*tel`\, n. [Gr. ? musk: cf. F. moscatelline. See Muscadel, Musk.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Adoxa ( Adoxa moschatellina), the flowers of which are pale green, and have a faint musky smell. It is found in woods in all parts of Europe, and is called also hollow root and musk crowfoot.
--Loudon.

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moschatel

n. (taxlink Adoxa moschatellina species noshow=1), plant of the genus ''Adoxa''

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Flossy catkins of the later kinds, fern-sprouts like bishops’ croziers, the square-headed moschatel, the odd cuckoo-pint,—like an apoplectic saint in a niche of malachite,—snow-white ladies’-smocks, the toothwort, approximating to human flesh, the enchanter’s night-shade, and the black-petaled doleful-bells, were among the quainter objects of the vegetable world in and about Weatherbury at this teeming time.