scrofulaire
Definition
Examples
Sentences with the word scrofulaire
Il y avait différentes cartes et une mention spéciale portant sur la scrofulaire voyageuse, de son petit nom latin scrophularia peregrina.Ouest-France, 30/05/2020
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Dictionnaire universel de Furetière (1690)
Historical definition of SCRIOFULAIRE s. f.
Espece d'herbe, ou ortie puante qu'on appelle aussi herbe aux chats, & qu'on croit guerir les escroüelles. Les Medecins la nomment galeopsis, urtica, labeo, scrophularia major, ficaria, millemorbia, castrangula. La petite chelidoine ou esclaire est appellée scrophularia minor.
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