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CULVER'S PHYSIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Culver's physic mean?
• CULVER'S PHYSIC (noun)
The noun CULVER'S PHYSIC has 1 sense:
1. a tall perennial herb having spikes of small white or purple flowers; common in eastern North America
Familiarity information: CULVER'S PHYSIC used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A tall perennial herb having spikes of small white or purple flowers; common in eastern North America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Culver's physic; Culver's root; Culvers physic; Culvers root; Veronicastrum virginicum; whorlywort
Hypernyms ("Culver's physic" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Holonyms ("Culver's physic" is a member of...):
family Scrophulariaceae; figwort family; foxglove family; Scrophulariaceae (a family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Polemoniales; includes figwort and snapdragon and foxglove and toadflax and speedwell and mullein; in some classifications placed in the order Scrophulariales)
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