Word Meanings - BEARSFOOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A species of hellebore (Helleborus foetidus), with digitate leaves. It has an offensive smell and acrid taste, and is a powerful emetic, cathartic, and anthelmintic.

• SMELLINGSALTS
  An aromatic preparation of carbonate of ammonia and, often, some scent, to avoid or relieve faintness, headache, or the like.
• SMELLLESS
  Destitute of smell; having no odor. Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint. Beau & Fl.
• Acridness
  The quality of being acrid or pungent; irritant bitterness; acrimony; as, the acridity of a plant, of a speech.
• Smell-feast
  One who is apt to find and frequent good tables; a parasite; a sponger.
• Anthelmintic
  Good against intestinal worms.
• Smell-less
  Destitute of smell; having no odor.
• Cathartic
  Alt. of Catharical
• Digitated
  Having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole. Also, in general, characterized by digitation.

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