Search Result for "fumaria_officinalis":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. delicate European herb with greyish leaves and spikes of purplish flowers; formerly used medicinally;
[syn: fumitory, fumewort, fumeroot, Fumaria officinalis]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fumaric \Fu*mar"ic\, a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, fumitory (Fumaria officinalis). [1913 Webster] Fumaric acid (Chem.), a widely occurring organic acid, extracted from fumitory as a white crystallline substance, C2H2(CO2H)2, and produced artificially in many ways, as by the distillation of malic acid; boletic acid. It is found also in the lichen, Iceland moss, and hence was also called lichenic acid. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Fumaria officinalis n 1: delicate European herb with greyish leaves and spikes of purplish flowers; formerly used medicinally [syn: fumitory, fumewort, fumeroot, Fumaria officinalis]