Word Meanings - LOBELINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A poisonous narcotic alkaloid extracted from the leaves of Indian tobacco (Lobelia inflata) as a yellow oil, having a tobaccolike taste and odor.

• Yellowshanks
  Alt. of Yellowshins
• Yellowing
  of Yellow
• Yellowammer
  See Yellow-hammer.
• Yellowshins
  See Yellolegs.
• Haveless
  Having little or nothing.
• Lobelia
  A genus of plants, including a great number of species. Lobelia inflata, or Indian tobacco, is an annual plant of North America, whose leaves contain a poisonous white viscid juice, of an acrid taste. It has often been used in medicine as an emeti
• Yellowbill
  The American scoter.
• Yellowtail
  Any one of several species of marine carangoid fishes of the genus Seriola; especially, the large California species (S. dorsalis) which sometimes weighs thirty or forty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish; -- called also cavasina, and w
• Alkaloid
  Alt. of Alkaloidal
• Havelock
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• Lobeliaceous
  Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants of which the genus Lobelia is the type.
• Yellowbird
  The American goldfinch, or thistle bird. See Goldfinch.
• Yellowthroat
  Any one of several species of American ground warblers of the genus Geothlypis, esp. the Maryland yellowthroat (G. trichas), which is a very common species.
• Alkaloidal
  Pertaining to, resembling, or containing, alkali.
• Narcotic
  Having the properties of a narcotic; operating as a narcotic.
• Yellow-covered
  Covered or bound in yellow paper.
• Yellowtop
  A kind of grass, perhaps a species of Agrostis.

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