TORMENTIL
\tɔːmˈɛntə͡l], \tɔːmˈɛntəl], \t_ɔː_m_ˈɛ_n_t_əl]\
Definitions of TORMENTIL
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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A rosaceous herb (Potentilla Tormentilla), the root of which is used as a powerful astringent, and for alleviating gripes, or tormina, in diarrhea.
By Oddity Software
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A rosaceous herb (Potentilla Tormentilla), the root of which is used as a powerful astringent, and for alleviating gripes, or tormina, in diarrhea.
By Noah Webster.
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tor'men-til, n. a genus of plants, one species with an astringent woody root. [Fr.,--Low L. tormentilla--L. tormentum.]
By Thomas Davidson
By Sir Augustus Henry
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The plant Potentilla tormentilla: an astringent.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Potentilla tormentilla; the plant and its astringent rhizome.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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