Hypertext Webster Gateway: "boneset"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Boneset \Bone"set`\, n. (Bot.)
A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort ({Eupatorium
perfoliatum}). Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

boneset
n 1: European herb having small white, pink or purple flowers;
naturalized as a weed in North America [syn: {common
comfrey}, {Symphytum officinale}]
2: perennial herb of southeastern United States having
white-rayed flower heads; formerly used as in folk
medicine [syn: {agueweed}, {thoroughwort}, {Eupatorium
perfoliatum}]


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