sanguinaria
English
editEtymology
editFrom the genus name.
Noun
editsanguinaria (plural sanguinarias)
- (botany) Any of the genus Sanguinaria, or bloodroots.
- 1871, Edward Everett Hale, Old and New, volume 3, page 108:
- […] the violets, houstonias, hepaticas, and sanguinarias, which take so kindly to home cultivation.
- The rootstock of the bloodroot, used in medicine as an emetic, etc.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sanguinaria”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Italian
editAdjective
editsanguinaria
Latin
editAdjective
editsanguināria
- inflection of sanguinārius:
Adjective
editsanguināriā
References
edit- "sanguinaria", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Spanish
editAdjective
editsanguinaria