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Webster 1913 Edition


Dogbane

Dog′baneˊ

,
Noun.
[Said to be poisonous to dogs. Cf.
Apocynaceous
.]
(Bot.)
A small genus of perennial herbaceous plants, with poisonous milky juice, bearing slender pods pods in pairs.

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dogbane

dogbane

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dogbane (plural dogbanes)

  1. (botany) Any species of genus Apocynum, eponymous of the dogbane family Apocynaceae
    Most dogbanes are poisonous tropical plants producing showy flowers and milky juice

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