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polygala
n.
(Botany) family of various bitter shrubs and herbs found throughout the world (includes the milkworts and snakeroot)
Polygala
Polygala is a large
genus of
flowering plants belonging to the family
Polygalaceae. They are commonly known as
milkworts or
snakeroots. The genus is distributed widely throughout much of the world in
temperate zones and the
tropics. The genus name
Polygala comes from the
ancient Greek "much milk", as the plant was thought to increase milk yields in cattle.
Polygala
Noun
1. type genus of the Polygalaceae: milkwort; seneca; snakeroot
(synonym) genus Polygala
(hypernym) rosid dicot genus
(member-holonym) Polygalaceae, family Polygalaceae, milkwort family
(member-meronym) milkwort
Polygala
(n.)
A genus of bitter herbs or shrubs having eight stamens and a two-celled ovary (as the Seneca snakeroot, the flowering wintergreen, etc.); milkwort.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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