Rheum: alternatives and connections

A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pu…

The wood of the agalloch.

Alt. of Althea

A genus of plants of the Mallow family. It includes the officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks.

That which is analogous to, or corresponds with, some other thing.

The pistillidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants.

A genus of plants including the plants called mugwort, southernwood, and wormwood. Of these A. absinthium, or common wormwood, is well…

A genus of plants, mostly of tropical America, many species of which are grown as ornamental plants. The leaves are curiously one-side…

the use of plants or plant extracts for medicinal purposes (especially plants that are not part of the normal diet)

A genus (Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spik…

An annual composite plant of the Mississippi valley (Senecio lobatus).

A glucoside extracted from rhubarb as a bitter, yellow, crystalline powder, and yielding chrysophanic acid on decomposition.

A large genus of plants having monopetalous flowers, including the common bindweed (C. arwensis), and formerly the morning-glory, but…

A genus of herbaceous composite plants, having the achenes two-horned and remotely resembling some insect; tickseed. C. tinctoria, of…

A genus of bulbous plants, of the order Amaryllidace/, cultivated as greenhouse plants on account of their beauty.

A genus of plants native to Mexico and Central America, of the order Compositae; also, any plant or flower of the genus. The numerous…

An orange-red crystalline substance, C15H10O5, obtained from the buckthorn, rhubarb, etc., and regarded as a derivative of anthraquino…

Pertaining to a genus or kind; relating to a genus, as distinct from a species, or from another genus; as, a generic description; a ge…