sanguinaria
English
Etymology
From the genus name.
Noun
sanguinaria (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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
Latin
Adjective
sanguināria
- inflection of sanguinārius:
- nominative/vocative feminine singular
- nominative/accusative/nominative neuter plural
References
- 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
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