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ELECAMPANE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does elecampane mean?
• ELECAMPANE (noun)
The noun ELECAMPANE has 1 sense:
1. tall coarse Eurasian herb having daisylike yellow flowers with narrow petals whose rhizomatous roots are used medicinally
Familiarity information: ELECAMPANE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tall coarse Eurasian herb having daisylike yellow flowers with narrow petals whose rhizomatous roots are used medicinally
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
elecampane; Inula helenium
Hypernyms ("elecampane" is a kind of...):
inula (any plant of the genus Inula)
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