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RUMEX

\ɹˈuːmɛks], \ɹˈuːmɛks], \ɹ_ˈuː_m_ɛ_k_s]\

Definitions of RUMEX

2006 - WordNet 3.0
2011 - English Dictionary Database
1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary

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docks: coarse herbs and shrubs mainly native to north temperate regions

2006 - WordNet 3.0
By Princeton University

docks: coarse herbs and shrubs mainly native to north temperate regions

2011 - English Dictionary Database
By DataStellar Co., Ltd

Yellow-dock; alterative and tonic.

1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
By William R. Warner

A genus of weedlike herbs (docks and sorrels) of the Polygonaceae.
Of the U. S. Ph., 1890, the astringent root (dock root) of R. crispus, R. acutus, R. silvestris, and other species of R. It is little used therapeutically.

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

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