Coltsfoot

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  • noun. A low perennial Eurasian herb (Tussilago farfara) in the composite family, naturalized in parts of North America and having dandelionlike flower heads and large, hoof-shaped basal leaves.
  • noun. The dried leaves or flower heads of this plant, long used in herbal medicine to treat coughs.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The popular name of the Tussilago Farfara, natural order Compositæ, a plant of Europe and Asia, now naturalized in the United States, the leaves of which were once much employed in medicine.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A perennial herb (Tussilago Farfara), whose leaves and rootstock are sometimes employed in medicine.
  • noun. a European plant (Petasites vulgaris).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An herbaceous plant in the family Compositae, species Tussilago farfara, that grows in Europe and the Middle East.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. perennial herb with large rounded leaves resembling a colt's foot and yellow flowers appearing before the leaves do; native to Europe but now nearly cosmopolitan; used medicinally especially formerly
  • noun. tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall
  • Word Usage
    "However, orchard grass (called coltsfoot in English farming books) will grow down 4 or more feet while leaving a massive amount of decaying organic matter in the subsoil after the sod is tilled in."
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