10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CUCKOOPINT»
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cuckoopint in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Simon & Schuster Mega Crossword Puzzle Book #10
CUCKOOPINT. by. Edgar. Fontaine. A. common. name. for. the. cuckoopint. is. an
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Audition 16 ...
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Handbook of Medicinal Herbs, Second Edition
More than 8 g may irritate bladder, kidney, and urogenitals, causing albu- minuria
, cardialgia, cramps, dermatosis, diarrhea, nausea, rash, and vomiting (MAD;
HH2; PH2). CUCKOOPINT, ARUM (Arum maculatum L.) X Activities (Cuckoopint)
...
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Herbs & Things: Jeanne Rose's Herbal
Cuckoopint (Arum maculatum and A. vulgare). also called starch- wort, ramp,
lords and ladies, wake-robin, and sometimes even dragon's blood. The root of
the cuckoopint, when dried, yields a pure, delicate substance somewhat like
arrowroot ...
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A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish ...
[NL. Arnica: genus name, prob. a corruption of ptarmica <Gk. ptarmikē:
sneezewort, that makes sneeze <ptarmumai: to sneeze. See *pster- in App. Akin
to Sp. estertor, E. sternutation.] aro (1) m. hoop, ring, rim. [OU.] aro (2) m. (bot.)
cuckoopint ...
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HowDunit - The Book of Poisons
cuckooPint. scientific name: Arum maculatum. other: Adam and eve, lords-and-
ladies, wild arum, wake-robin, Jack-in-the-pulpit. toxicity: 5 deadly Parts: All. The
sweet-tasting berries are the most poisonous, but the sour leaves, flowers, and ...
Serita Stevens, Anne Bannon, 2007
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Chemical Dictionary of Economic Plants
Cuckoopint. 63. Lords and Ladies Arum maculatum (Araceae). Medicinal plant.
Contains triglochinin, a cyanogenic gly- coside, as toxic principle. Also present
are glycoflavones, vitexin, isovitexin, orientin and isoorientin. The unpleasant ...
Jeffrey B. Harborne, Herbert Baxter, 2001
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Astrological Practice of Physick
Throats Inflammation to assuage : Cuckoopint root, walnut~ tree, strawberries,
throatwort, toadstools, vine—leaves, violets, wormwood, camomile. Toothache, to
help : Black alder, arsmart root or seed, asparagus root, red beet—root, broom, ...
Joseph Blagrave, David R. Roell, 2010
>4* □ The peaceful sight of the teasel ( above right) and cuckoopint with its red
fruit ( top and left ) may mask a ferocious campaign to trap the insects around
them. Cutting open the globular base or spathe of the cuckoopint reveals the ...
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Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery, 1989: Staplefoods : ...
... Quare, what may be done in carots, tumeps and such like rootes after this
manner'. (Platt also thought turnips could be used instead of cuckoopint to make
bread as 'there are both good store and the price of them likewise very
reasonable').
Muskrats eat the rhizomes sparingly. A close European relative, the cuckoopint or
lords-and-ladies (Arum maculatum), was believed to poison birds that consumed
the fruits, with the bird's decaying body providing a rich seedbed for the plant.
John Andrew Eastman, 1995
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CUCKOOPINT»
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cuckoopint is used in the context of the following news items.
Alys Fowler: Italian lords-and-ladies
... small people: saying that, I survived a garden full of them and played endlessly in woods full of its native relative, cuckoopint (A. maculatum). «The Guardian, Oct 14»
All's well until it doesn't end well on a walk through the woods
Up in the woods, paths are claggy, the clay slick – and the first rolled tongues of cuckoopint stick out of it. There is a man with a cudgel and no ... «The Guardian, Jan 14»
