Crossword clues for vervain
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vervain \Ver"vain\, n. [OE. verveine, F. verveine, fr. L. verbena, pl. verbenae sacred boughs of laurel, olive, or myrtle, a class of plants; cf. verbenaca vervain. Cf. Verbena.] (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Verbena.
Vervain mallow (Bot.), a species of mallow ( Malva Alcea) with rose-colored flowers.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
herbaceous plant much valued medicinally in Middle Ages, late 14c., from Old French verveine (13c.), from Latin verbena (see verbena).
Wiktionary
n. A herbaceous plant, (taxlink Verbena officinalis species noshow=1), common in Europe and formerly held to have medicinal properties.
WordNet
n. any of numerous tropical or subtropical American plants of the genus Verbena grown for their showy spikes of variously colored flowers [syn: verbena]
Wikipedia
Vervain (from French) is the common name of plants of the genus Verbena.
It can also refer to:
- The Vervain hummingbird from the West Indies
- The 25th day of Prairial in the French Republican Calendar, corresponding to June 15 in the Gregorian calendar
- HMS Vervain (K190), a Royal Navy Group 2 Flower class corvette
- Vervain, one of the Efrafan rabbits from the novel Watership Down
- Oncle Vervain, a character in the 2000 Anne Rice novel Merrick
- One of the planets in the Vorkosigan Saga universe
- Liv Kristine's fifth solo album, Vervain
- A track on the Daniel Dumile album Special Herbs, Vols. 9 & 0
- A track on the Faith and the Muse debut album Elyria
- In The Vampire Diaries: An herb that has the power to weaken vampires and protects humans from their mind control.
Vervain is the fifth album by female vocalist and lyricist Liv Kristine. It was released in 2014 on Napalm Records.
Usage examples of "vervain".
At just that moment, there was a thrashing from the other room, and Valentine Vervain, long red hair liberally beslimed, minus nine-foot train and one of her sleeves, scrambled through the door and plastered herself against the wall, where she promptly passed out.
Once I had the ingredients translated, I saw that I could get them at the herb store on Braker without any trouble: it was mostly stuff I already had anyway, like vervain and oils of rosemary and peppermint.
The action, the energy for this destabilization, by elimination must be coming from or via Vervain.
Meriam tried nettle tea and parsley, but after a few beads of clear fluid welled up on her nipples, she went dry and no matter what Meriam tried, fennel, strips of meat mashed into a soft pulp, an infusion of vervain or of chaste tree, her breasts produced nothing more.
Durmond Pilverman was sitting on a sofa next to Frannie Vervain, who was so busy trying to cozy up with him that she tumped chop suey in her lap.
He hangs up herbs in bunches to dry, too -- thyme, marjoram, sage, vervain, southern wood, yarrow.
At the time we left Vervain Station they were still putting the Rangers' failures to defend the Cetagandan-side jump down to incompetence.
At first, Adelie had tried giving him plants that would make him sleep valerian and manzanilla, vervain and violets.
O'Shaughnessy squinted at the paper labels slid into copper placards on each box: amaranth, nux vomica, nettle, vervain, hellebore, nightshade, narcissus, shepherd's purse, pearl trefoil.
Meanwhile he offers for your personal regalement this cup of vervain tea, together with these two nutritious wafers, at no charge.
Salvia Verbenaca, the Wild English Clary, or Vervain Sage, is a native of all parts of Europe and not uncommon in England in dry pastures and on roadsides, banks and waste ground, especially near the sea, or on chalky soil.