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Webster 1913 Edition

Celandine

Cel′an-dine

(sĕl′ăn-dīn)
,
Noun.
[OE.
celidoine
, OF.
celidoine
, F.
chélidoine
, fr. L.
chelidonia
(sc.
herba
), fr.
chelidonius
pertaining to the swallow, Gr.
χελιδόνιος
, fr.
χελιδών
the swallow, akin to L.
hirundo
a swallow.]
(Bot.)
A perennial herbaceous plant (
Chelidonium majus
) of the poppy family, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine in jaundice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch; – called also
greater celandine
and
swallowwort
.
Lasser celandine
,
the pilewort (
Ranunculus Ficaria
).

Webster 1828 Edition

Celandine

CELANDINE

,
Noun.
A plant, swallow-wort, horned or prickly poppy, growing on old walls, among rubbish, and in waste places. The lesser celandine is called pile-wort, a species of Ranunculus. The name is also given to the Bocconia, a plant of the West Indies, called the greater tree-celandine. The true orthography would be Chelidine.

Definition 2024

celandine

celandine

English

Noun

celandine ‎(plural celandines)

  1. Either of two unrelated flowering plants:
    1. The greater celandine (Chelidonium majus)
    2. The lesser celandine (Ficaria verna, formerly Ranunculus ficaria)
    • 1950, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Collins, 1998, Chapter 11,
      Coming suddenly round a corner into a glade of silver birch trees Edmund saw the ground covered in all directions with little yellow flowers—celandines.

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Middle English celidoine, Old French celidoine, French chélidoine, from Latin chelīdonia, from chelīdonius ‎(“relating to the swallow”), from Ancient Greek χελιδόνιος ‎(khelidónios), χελιδών ‎(khelidṓn).

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