COMMON DOGBANE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does common dogbane mean? 

• COMMON DOGBANE (noun)
  The noun COMMON DOGBANE has 1 sense:

1. North American perennial having pinkish flowers in loose cymes; used in folk medicine for pain or inflammation in joints

  Familiarity information: COMMON DOGBANE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMON DOGBANE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

North American perennial having pinkish flowers in loose cymes; used in folk medicine for pain or inflammation in joints

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Apocynum androsaemifolium; common dogbane; rheumatism weed; spreading dogbane

Hypernyms ("common dogbane" is a kind of...):

dogbane (any of several poisonous perennial plants of the genus Apocynum having acrid milky juice and bell-shaped white or pink flowers and a very bitter root)