sanguinaria

See also: Sanguinaria and sanguinária

English
Sanguinaria canadensis

Wikispecies

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

sanguinaria (plural sanguinarias)

  1. (botany) Any of the genus Sanguinaria, or bloodroots.
    • 1871, Edward Everett Hale, Old and New (volume 3, page 108)
      […] the violets, houstonias, hepaticas, and sanguinarias, which take so kindly to home cultivation.
  2. The rootstock of the bloodroot, used in medicine as an emetic, etc.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sanguinaria in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Italian

Adjective

sanguinaria

  1. feminine singular of sanguinario

Latin

Adjective

sanguināria

  1. nominative feminine singular of sanguinārius
  2. nominative neuter plural of sanguinārius
  3. accusative neuter plural of sanguinārius
  4. vocative feminine singular of sanguinārius
  5. nominative neuter plural of sanguinārius

sanguināriā

  1. ablative feminine singular of sanguinārius

References

Spanish

Adjective

sanguinaria

  1. feminine singular of sanguinario
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