sanguinaria

See also: Sanguinaria, sanguinária, and sanguinària

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Italian

Adjective

sanguinaria

1. feminine singular of sanguinario

Latin

Adjective

sanguināria

1. inflection of sanguinārius:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/nominative neuter plural

Adjective

sanguināriā

1. ablative feminine singular of sanguinārius

References

• sanguinaria in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Spanish

Adjective

sanguinaria

1. feminine singular of sanguinario