Euphorbia Helioscopia

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

Euphorbia helioscopia
    n 1: not unattractive European weed whose flowers turn toward
         the sun [syn: {sun spurge}, {wartweed}, {wartwort},
         {devil's milk}, {Euphorbia helioscopia}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Turnsole \Turn"sole`\, n. [F. tournesol, It. tornasole; tornare
   to turn (LL. tornare) + sole the sun, L. sol. See {Turn},
   {Solar}, a., and cf. {Heliotrope}.] [Written also {turnsol}.]
   1. (Bot.)
      (a) A plant of the genus {Heliotropium}; heliotrope; -- so
          named because its flowers are supposed to turn toward
          the sun.
      (b) The sunflower.
      (c) A kind of spurge ({Euphorbia Helioscopia}).
      (d) The euphorbiaceous plant {Chrozophora tinctoria}.
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   2. (Chem.)
      (a) Litmus. [Obs.]
      (b) A purple dye obtained from the plant turnsole. See
          def. 1
      (d) .
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Wart \Wart\, n. [OE. werte, AS. wearte; akin to D. wrat, G.
   warze, OHG. warza, Icel. varta, Sw. v[*a]rta, Dan. vorte;
   perh. orig., a growth, and akin to E. wort; or cf. L. verruca
   wart.]
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   1. (Med.) A small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by
      enlargement of its vascular papillae, and thickening of
      the epidermis which covers them.
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   2. An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a
      true wart; specifically (Bot.), a glandular excrescence or
      hardened protuberance on plants.
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   {Fig wart}, {Moist wart} (Med.), a soft, bright red, pointed
      or tufted tumor found about the genitals, often massed
      into groups of large size. It is a variety of condyloma.
      Called also {pointed wart}, {venereal wart}. --L. A.
      Duhring.

   {Wart cress} (Bot.), the swine's cress. See under {Swine}.

   {Wart snake} (Zool.), any one of several species of East
      Indian colubrine snakes of the genus {Acrochordus}, having
      the body covered with wartlike tubercles or spinose
      scales, and lacking cephalic plates and ventral scutes.

   {Wart spurge} (Bot.), a kind of wartwort ({Euphorbia
      Helioscopia}).
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Wartwort \Wart"wort`\, n. (Bot.)
   A name given to several plants because they were thought to
   be a cure for warts, as a kind of spurge ({Euphorbia
   Helioscopia}), and the nipplewort ({Lampsana communis}).
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