Dogwood: 1 definition
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Biology (plants and animals)
Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)1) Dogwood in English is the name of a plant defined with Piscidia piscipula in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Ichthyomethia americana (Sessé & Moc.) S.F. Blake (among others).
2) Dogwood is also identified with Rhamnus prinoides It has the synonym Celtis rhamnifolia Presl, nom. illegit.) (Greek prinos ‘the scarlet oak’, Latin prinus ‘ilex, the holm-oak, great scarlet oak’.
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (1924)
· Systema Naturae
· Flore de Guadeloupe et Dependances (1948)
· Prodromus Stirpium in Horto ad Chapel Allerton vigentium (1796)
· Prog. Clin. Biol. Res. (1988)
· Vorlesungen der Churpfälzischen physicalisch-öconomischen Gesellschaft (1787)
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See also (Relevant definitions)
Starts with: Dogwood bark, Dogwood tree.
Ends with (+16): Alternate-leaf dogwood, American dogwood, Blood-twig dogwood, Bloodtwig dogwood, Brown dogwood, Bunchberry dogwood, Common dogwood, Common white dogwood, Creeping dogwood, Eastern flowering dogwood, False dogwood, Flowering dogwood, Giant dogwood, Gray dogwood, Jamaica dogwood, Jamaican dogwood, Knob-styled dogwood, Mountain dogwood, Northern swamp dogwood, Pacific dogwood.
Full-text (+53): Flowering dogwood, Common dogwood, Roundleaf dogwood, Poison dogwood, Blood-twig dogwood, Round-leaved dogwood, Silky dogwood, Bloodtwig dogwood, Toughleaf dogwood, False dogwood, Bunchberry dogwood, Panicled dogwood, Stiff dogwood, Brown dogwood, Giant dogwood, Siberian dogwood, Gray dogwood, Creeping dogwood, White dogwood, Tatarian dogwood.
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