In the names of weeds, this old word for a plant follows soap- & St. John's
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Botany 115 Economic Plant Families - Wayne's Word - Palomar ...  Numbered Plant Familes Are Used On Botany 115 Exam #4 Submission Form ... Allium cepa Onion and Shallot [Edible bulbs; including many different varieties.] ... in cady, medicines, perfumes, liquor and soap; true licorice from root of a perennial legume. ...... Hypericaceae: St. John's-Wort Family Back To Alphabet Table.
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Plants by Weed, Scientific Name  Common Names wintercress, american yellowrocket. Family Mustard Weed ... Short Description Introduced plant, conspicuous along edges of ponds, irrigation canals. Native No Weed Can be ...... Common Names St. John's Wort Family St.
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Poisonous Weeds in Horse Pastures (from Rutgers NJAES)  Rutgers NJAES: Poisonous Weeds in Horse Pastures. ... Hungry horses do not heed warnings about avoiding poisonous plants. ... There are several different chemical compounds capable of poisoning that .... Weeds: Onions/garlic, ground ivy, milkweed, bracken fern, cocklebur, horsetail, white snakeroot, St. Johns wort,...
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List of wort plants - Wikipedia  This is an alphabetical listing of wort plants, meaning plants that employ the syllable wort in their English-language common names. According to the Oxford English Dictionary's Ask Oxford site, "A word with the suffix -wort is often very old. The Old English word was wyrt, from Proto-Indo-European origins that ... Other species of Pinguicula have "butterwort" in their English names.
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Full text of "Gaelic names of plants (Scottish and Irish) Collected and ...  The Gaelic Names of Plants, reprinted from a series of articles in the ' Scottish ..... Irish : racadal, perhaps from an old word rac, a king, a prince, and adhal, desire .... Welsh : sebonllys, the same meaning {sebon, soap), Latin sapo, so called ... In the glen where the St John's wort, the white daisy, and the primrose grow, the...
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Plant - Ray Sahelian, M.D.  Gernaium ivy lady washington These garden or window plants of the genus ... weed, named for the white liquid in its stems, was used in lifebelts in World War II ... Poppy artificial memorial flower, Its seed is used in baking, but 1 type .... A disused Mine in Pennsylvania now contains the largest mushroom farm in the world.
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Weed It And Reap: Making A Meal Out Of Nature's Outcasts : NPR  Jun 23, 2010 ... Weed It And Reap: A Meal With Nature's Outcasts ... when that other bane of gardeners, the mosquito, arrives in swarms. ... of the sometimes-toxic knotweed and pokeweed, the familiar plant ... Wood sorrel, with its cute little trio of hearts, is like lemon zest in leaf form. ... Some people like a D-shaped omelet.
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Ask Me A Trivia Question -- 2 -- - Discussion on Topix  May 13, 2016 ... One way to recognize poison ivy is to know its leaves always come in clusters of this many. what is three .... The symbol "y" was once used in place of these 2 letters; hence the word "ye" as in "ye olde pub". hhhmm. What is...
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Wood on Words: Words sound as good as they smell - Hillsdale.net  Jun 25, 2010 ... People attending a dance who just stand or sit around watching are ... Violet comes from the Latin for the flower, viola. ... That must be really old. ... Finally, the gardenia is named not for just any garden, but for A. Garden, says Webster's. ... his work didn't really involve the genus that bears his name.
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Parsley - Wikipedia  Parsley or garden parsley (Petroselinum crispum) is a species of Petroselinum in the family ... Curly leaf parsley is often used as a garnish. ... Root parsley is very common in central, eastern and southern European cuisines, where it ... to the contemporary German word for parsley: Petersilie) and the Old French peresil, both...
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Etymologically Speaking...  Some of these are English, but some are French and German words from which ... which was a scented, golden apple first raised by and named after Matius, a friend of ..... From "thaler" -- a nickname for the silver coins that were minted from the ore .... Too much yellow bile and you saw the world through a "bilious" eye , and...
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Interesting and Fun Facts About the Dandelion Flower  Up until the 1800s people would pull grass out of their lawns to make room for dandelions and other useful weeds like chickweed, malva, and chamomile. The average ... The name dandelion is taken from the French word dent de lion meaning lion's tooth, referring to the coarsely-toothed leaves. Dandelions have one of...
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Peffley: Daffodils remind us spring is on the way | Lubbock Online ...  Mar 2, 2016 ... What the commonly called daffodils or jonquils share are that both are members of ... slender leaves, derived from the Latin juncus, meaning rush-plant. ... The Latin name for daffodil, Narcissus, is derived from the word .... Arctic Apples coming to supermarkets, despite anti-GMO opposition (Agriculture blog).
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Mythical Plant Dictionary - GEOCITIES.ws  Daffodil - Avoid taking a single flower into the house as it will bring bad luck - always .... of thorns worn on Jesus head and the red berries that represent the blood of Jesus. ... Lettuce - The Romans believed that the lettuce plant was a powerful ... for these reasons but probably because it was thought to prevent drunkenness.
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J! Archive - Show #315, aired 1985-11-22  In 1952, this plant substance was added to toothpaste, gum, soap, & many other ... This term means that extra alcohol has been added, as to sherry, for example...
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Printer Friendly - StudyDroid  $400 FOREIGN CUISINE A British variety is called ""bangers"", a Mexican ...... OF FOOD Stem of a variety of lily, known in Old England as ""sparrow grass".
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carnation - Plant Lives  Clove pink, Coronal, Coronation, Cottage pink, Cravinas-dos-jardins ... Sops-in-wine, Spink, Trdgrdsnejlika (Swedish), and Wild carnation; and in ... Oil known as Carnation oil is extracted from the flowers. ... In the English Elizabethan era many are said to have believed that if you ... names used to be 'sops-in-wine'. In the...
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jeopardy/177_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  AUTOMOBILES | In Japan it's called "rasshu awa"; in L.A, 4 to 6 P.M. | rush hour .... OF FOOD | Stem of a variety of lily, known in Old England as "sparrow grass"...
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Saint-John's-bread - Memidex dictionary/thesaurus  ... from the ground seeds and pods of the carob tree. used as a chocolate substitute. ... tree with racemose red flowers | a pod of the carob tree or its sweet pulp having a ... tree of the pea family, native to the eastern Mediterranean region and...
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Herb and spice reference chart and dictionary. Descriptions, culinary ...  Herb descriptions, culinary and medicinal uses, history, origin, taste and aroma. ... Nutmeg Onion Oregano Paprika Parsley Pepper, Poppy Seeds Red Pepper ... Its licorice like flavor is popular in candies and Anise oil is used in liqueurs. ..... In fact, the name is derived from the old Norse word "dilla" meaning "to lull" because...
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Cooking with the Bible - HERBS AND SPICES  The Romans called it basiliscus, which refers to a basilisk, a fire-breathing dragon, ... Since ancient times, borage has been used to dispel melancholy and induce ... Many translations of the Bible still use the word caraway instead of cumin, though ..... Garlic bulbs can be dried and stored, and individual segments (cloves)...