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WILD QUININE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wild quinine mean?
• WILD QUININE (noun)
The noun WILD QUININE has 1 sense:
1. stout perennial herb of the eastern United States with whitish flowers; leaves traditionally used by Catawba Indians to treat burns
Familiarity information: WILD QUININE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Stout perennial herb of the eastern United States with whitish flowers; leaves traditionally used by Catawba Indians to treat burns
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
American feverfew; Parthenium integrifolium; prairie dock; wild quinine
Hypernyms ("wild quinine" is a kind of...):
subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)
Holonyms ("wild quinine" is a member of...):
genus Parthenium; Parthenium (small genus of North American herbs and shrubs with terminal panicles of small ray flowers)
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