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noun

Astragalus n.

(Anat.) The ankle bone, or hock bone; the bone of the tarsus which articulates with the tibia at the ankle.

(Bot.) A genus of papilionaceous plants, of the tribe Galegeae, containing numerous species, two of which are called, in English, milk vetch and licorice vetch. Gum tragacanth is obtained from different oriental species, particularly the Astragalus gummifer and Astragalus verus.

(Arch.) See Astragal, 1.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... of in Dr. Anderson's Essays on Agriculture, under the mistaken name of Astragalus glycophyllos, p. 489; but a truly practical account is given of it by Ellis in his Husbandry, p. 89, by the ...

— The Botanist's Companion, Vol. II • William Salisbury

... month in the calendar and are now at the place where "winter lingers in the lap of spring." Snowdrops, crocuses, and little purple grape-hyacinths are blooming at the edge of the drifts. The thorny shrubs and bushes, and spiny herbs like astragalus and cousinia, are green-stemmed but leafless, and the birds that flutter among them are still in the first rapture of vernal bliss, the gay music that follows mating and precedes nesting. Big dove-coloured ...

— Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land - Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit • Henry Van Dyke

... tussilago farfara, gum arabic, mimosa nilotica, gum tragacanth, astragalus tragacantha. Decoction of barley, hordeum distichon. Expressed oils. Spermaceti, soap. Extract of liquorice, ...

— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin

Words linked to "Astragalus" : astragal, astragalar, genus Astragalus, Papilionoideae, milk vetch, talus, os, mortise joint, anklebone, rosid dicot genus, ankle joint