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Any one of certain plants whose soft, downy leaves have been used for dressing wounds, as the kidney vetch, and several species of the labiate genus Stachys.

Any one of certain plants whose soft, downy leaves have been used for dressing wounds, as the kidney vetch, and several species of the labiate genus Stachys.

1. Solidago virgaurea, Aaron's rod employed in domestic medicine as a vulnerary. 2. Stachys palustris, the hedge-nettle, a vulnerary in domestic practice.