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De - Pt| English Dictionary: lobelia | by the DICT Development Group |
| 2 results for lobelia | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Lobelia \Lo*be"li*a\ (?; 106), n. [NL. So called from Lobel, botanist to King James I.] (Bot.) A genus of plants, including a great number of species. {Lobelia inflata}, or Indian tobacco, is an annual plant of North America, whose leaves contain a poisonous white viscid juice, of an acrid taste. It has often been used in medicine as an emetic, expectorant, etc. {L. cardinalis} is the cardinal flower, remarkable for the deep and vivid red color of its flowers. | |
