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DOGBANE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dogbane mean?
• DOGBANE (noun)
The noun DOGBANE has 1 sense:
1. 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
Familiarity information: DOGBANE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("dogbane" is a kind of...):
poisonous plant (a plant that when touched or ingested in sufficient quantity can be harmful or fatal to an organism)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dogbane"):
Apocynum androsaemifolium; common dogbane; rheumatism weed; spreading dogbane (North American perennial having pinkish flowers in loose cymes; used in folk medicine for pain or inflammation in joints)
Apocynum cannabinum; Indian hemp; rheumatism weed (Canadian dogbane yielding a tough fiber used as cordage by Native Americans; used in folk medicine for pain or inflammation in joints)
Apocynum pumilum; Rocky Mountain dogbane (North American plant similar to common dogbane)
Holonyms ("dogbane" is a member of...):
Apocynum; genus Apocynum (perennial herbs with small pink or white flowers)
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