noun. A perennial Eurasian herb (Chelidonium majus) having deeply divided leaves, showy yellow flowers, and yellow-orange latex.

noun. The lesser celandine.

noun. The Chelidonium majus, a papaveraceous plant of Europe, naturalized in the United States, having glaucous foliage, bright-yellow flowers, and acrid yellow juice, which is sometimes employed as a purgative and as a remedy for warts. To distinguish it from the following plant, it is often called the greater celandine.

noun. The pilewort, Ranunculus Ficaria, called in England the lesser or small celandine.

noun. A perennial herbaceous plant (Chelidonium majus) of the poppy family, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine in jaundice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort.

noun. the pilewort (Ranunculus Ficaria).

noun. Either of two unrelated flowering plants:

noun. perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers

noun. North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil

"I pause for a bewildered five minutes, wondering if a celandine is a poppy, and how many petals _it_ has: going on again -- because I must, without making up my mind, on either question -- I am told to "observe the floral receptacle of the Californian genus Eschscholtzia.""

brook celandine  tree-celandine  wild celandine  

Herb  herbaceous plant  poppy  

Rhea  acanthus  cistus  fireblossom  gillyflower  

greater celandine  swallowwort