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NORTHERN JACOB'S LADDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does northern Jacob's ladder mean? 

NORTHERN JACOB'S LADDER (noun)
  The noun NORTHERN JACOB'S LADDER has 1 sense:

1. perennial erect herb with white flowers; circumborealplay

  Familiarity information: NORTHERN JACOB'S LADDER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


NORTHERN JACOB'S LADDER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Perennial erect herb with white flowers; circumboreal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

northern Jacob's ladder; Polemonium boreale

Hypernyms ("northern Jacob's ladder" is a kind of...):

polemonium (any plant of the genus Polemonium; most are low-growing often foul-smelling plants of temperate to Arctic regions)


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