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Sneezewort

noun
1.
Eurasian herb having loose heads of button-shaped white flowers and long grey-green leaves that cause sneezing when powdered.  Synonyms: Achillea ptarmica, sneezeweed yarrow.





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"Sneezewort" Quotes from Famous Books



... acknowledged to having employed the Yarrow in her incantations. She "plucked one herbe called Meleflower, sitting on her right knee, and pulling it betwixt the mid-finger and thumbe, and saying: In nominee Patris, Filii, et Spiritus Sancti." The Meleflower is the Achilloea Ptarmica or Sneezewort. ...
— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie


Words linked to "Sneezewort" :   achillea


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