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HEAL ALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heal all mean? 

HEAL ALL (noun)
  The noun HEAL ALL has 2 senses:

1. decumbent blue-flowered European perennial thought to possess healing properties; naturalized throughout North Americaplay

2. common woodland herb of temperate North America having yellow nodding flowers and small round blue fruitsplay

  Familiarity information: HEAL ALL used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HEAL ALL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Decumbent blue-flowered European perennial thought to possess healing properties; naturalized throughout North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

heal all; Prunella vulgaris; self-heal

Hypernyms ("heal all" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Holonyms ("heal all" is a member of...):

genus Prunella; Prunella (small genus of perennial mostly Eurasian having terminal spikes of small purplish or white flowers)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Common woodland herb of temperate North America having yellow nodding flowers and small round blue fruits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Clintonia borealis; heal all; yellow clintonia

Hypernyms ("heal all" is a kind of...):

Clinton's lily; clintonia (any temperate liliaceous plant of the genus Clintonia having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries)

Holonyms ("heal all" is a member of...):

genus Clintonia (sometimes placed in family Convallariaceae)


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