Cancer weed: 1 definition
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Cancer weed means something in biology. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
Biology (plants and animals)
Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)Cancer weed in English is the name of a plant defined with Salvia lyrata in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Horminum lyratum (L.) Mill. (among others).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Plantae Asiaticae Rariores, or ‘Descriptions and figures of a select number of unpublished East Indian plants’ (1830)
· Sketch Bot. S. Carolina (1816)
· Prodromus Stirpium in Horto ad Chapel Allerton vigentium (1796)
· Sylloge Plantarum Novarum (1828)
· Fl. Amer. Sept. (Pursh) (1814)
· Phytologia (1973)
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