Definitions for elecampane

elecampane el·e·cam·pane

Spelling: [el-i-kam-peyn]
IPA: /ˌɛl ɪ kæmˈpeɪn/

Elecampane is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 310 anagrams from letters in elecampane (aaceeelmnp).

Definitions for elecampane

noun

  1. a composite weed, Inula helenium, naturalized in North America, having large yellow flowers and aromatic leaves and root.

Origin of elecampane

1350-1400; Middle English, equivalent to Old English ele(ne), eolone (metathetic alteration of Medieval Latin enula, Latin inula elecampane) + Middle English campane Medieval Latin campāna, e

Examples for elecampane

The elecampane (I. Helenium) is an imposing, robust-growing species, having large, broad leaves a foot or more in length.

In the marsh she knew the Harvester was reaping queen-of-the-meadow, and around the high borders, elecampane and burdock.

A peculiar starch-like substance, first obtained by Rose from the root of Inula Helenium or elecampane.

elecampane, now known as the sweetmeat of childhood, was esteemed for ages in the domestic herbal.

Inulin, in′ū-lin, n. a starch-like product used in medicine, obtained principally from the roots of the plant Inula or elecampane.

This was in pennyroyal time, and when the rare lobelia was in its prime and the elecampane was coming on.

Then the elecampane wine did good service; yet was it not till she had drunk of it many times that her tongue spoke plainly again.

Inula (elecampane) has been employed as a cough remedy in England for centuries.

"I just saw a nice plant o' elecampane growin' back there," she said presently to her daughter.

I'm goin' to fix her up some hoarhound an' elecampane quick's the ground's nice an' warm an' roots livens up a grain more.

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