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Boneset

noun

European herb having small white, pink or purple flowers; naturalized as a weed in North America. Synonyms: common comfrey, Symphytum officinale.

Perennial herb of southeastern United States having white-rayed flower heads; formerly used as in folk medicine. Synonyms: agueweed, Eupatorium perfoliatum, thoroughwort.

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"Boneset" Quotes from Famous Books

... a axent like boneset and vinegar,—"and what few things there are that hain't happened to me, has happened to ...

— Sweet Cicely - Or Josiah Allen as a Politician • Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)

... pharmacon[obs3]. nostrum, receipt, recipe, prescription; catholicon[obs3], panacea, elixir, elixir vitae, philosopher's stone; balm, balsam, cordial, theriac[obs3], ptisan[obs3]. agueweed[obs3], arnica, benzoin, bitartrate of potash, boneset[obs3], calomel, catnip, cinchona, cream of tartar, Epsom salts[Chem]; feverroot[obs3], feverwort; friar's balsam, Indian sage; ipecac, ipecacuanha; jonquil, mercurous chloride, Peruvian bark; quinine, quinquina[obs3]; sassafras, yarrow. salve, ...

— Roget's Thesaurus

... mile-off woods on the hill, and now the apple orchards. What a contrast from New York's or Philadelphia's streets! Everywhere great patches of dingy-blossom'd horse-mint wafting a spicy odor through the air, (especially evenings.) Everywhere the flowering boneset, and the ...

— Complete Prose Works - Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy • Walt Whitman

Words linked to "Boneset" : herbaceous plant, cumfrey, Eupatorium, herb, healing herb, comfrey, genus Eupatorium