The popular name of various plants: (a) = catchfly, n.; (b) the ploughman's spikenard (Inula conyza); (c) (see quot. 1863).
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| 释义 | the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants yielding poison > plants yielding insecticide or used to repel insects > [noun] (6) fly-bane1597 The popular name of various plants: (a) = catchfly, n.; (b) the ploughman's spikenard (Inula conyza); (c) (see quot. 1863). bugbane1723 any of various toxic plants of the genera Cimifuga and Actaea (family Ranunculaceae), formerly used to repel bedbugs; esp. A. cimifuga (or C. foetida… timbo1725 Any of various South American woody vines cultivated as a source of fish poison and the insecticide rotenone, esp. those of the genus Lonchocarpus… fly-agaric1788 Agaricus muscarius = fly-bane, n. 1(c). rattleweed1793 Chiefly U.S. Black cohosh, Cimicifuga (or Actaea) racemosa (family Ranunculaceae). cube1924 One of several South American plants of the genus Lonchocarpus, having roots which contain rotenone, used as an insecticide. |
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