Definitions for dogbanes

dogbanes dog·bane

Spelling: [dawg-beyn, dog-]
IPA: /ˈdɔgˌbeɪn, ˈdɒg-/

Dogbanes is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 403 anagrams from letters in dogbanes (abdegnos).

Definitions for dogbanes

noun

  1. any of several plants of the genus Apocynum, especially A. androsaemifolium, yielding an acrid milky juice and having an intensely bitter root.

Origin of dogbanes

First recorded in 1590-1600; dog + bane

Examples for dogbanes

Vinca, ving′ka, n. a genus of woody herbaceous plants of the dogbane family, the periwinkles.

Allied to the milkweed is another plant, the dogbane (Apocynum), which has a similar trick of entrapping its insect friends.

Cream′-fruit, the fruit of a creeping West African plant of the dogbane family, yielding a cream-like juice; Cream′iness.

Word Value for dogbanes
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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