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Boneset

noun
1.
European herb having small white, pink or purple flowers; naturalized as a weed in North America.  Synonyms: common comfrey, Symphytum officinale.
2.
Perennial herb of southeastern United States having white-rayed flower heads; formerly used as in folk medicine.  Synonyms: agueweed, Eupatorium perfoliatum, thoroughwort.



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"Boneset" Quotes from Famous Books



... she, with a axent like boneset and vinegar,—"and what few things there are that hain't happened to me, has happened to ...
— Sweet Cicely - Or Josiah Allen as a Politician • Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)

... apple orchards. What a contrast from New York's or Philadelphia's streets! Everywhere great patches of dingy-blossom'd horse-mint wafting a spicy odor through the air, (especially evenings.) Everywhere the flowering boneset, and the ...
— Complete Prose Works - Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy • Walt Whitman

... in spring. Instead, the old leaves on the limbs rattle and waver down; the cornfield is only an area of stubs and long lines of yellow shocks; and in the corners of the meadow fence stand clumps of flower-stalks,—joe-pye-weed, boneset, goldenrod,—bare and already bleaching; and deep within their matted shade, where the brook bends about an elder bush, a single amber pendant of the jewel-weed, to which a bumble-bee comes droning on wings so loud that a little hyla near us ...
— The Hills of Hingham • Dallas Lore Sharp

... agreed, "but at dusk—Mercy, young man, how your teeth do chatter! Are you getting a chill? I'll bring you a bowl of boneset tea and some dinner right away!" and she hurried off ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) • Various



Words linked to "Boneset" :   herb, cumfrey, Eupatorium, comfrey, healing herb, genus Eupatorium, herbaceous plant



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