VALERIAN
\valˈi͡əɹɪən], \valˈiəɹɪən], \v_a_l_ˈiə_ɹ_ɪ__ə_n]\
Definitions of VALERIAN
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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A plant genus of the family VALERIANACEAE, order Dipsacales, subclass Asteridae, class Magnoliopsida. It is best known for the sedative use and valepotriate content of the roots. It is sometimes called Garden Heliotrope but is unrelated to true Heliotrope (HELIOTROPIUM).
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A drug with a strong, peculiar odor, obtained from the root of a plant, and used as a mild stimulant or tonic; the plant, or its root, from which this drug is obtained; any one of several other species of this plant.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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Antispasmodic and stimulact plant.
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A plant, most of whose species are very ornamental in flower-borders, and which have stimulant and aromatic qualities.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
