st john's wort
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1. any of numerous plants of the genus Hypericum having yellow flowers and transparently dotted leaves; traditionally gathered on St John's eve to ward off evil (noun.plant)
| hyponym | : | common st john's wort, hypericum androsaemum, tutsan, |
| definition | : | deciduous bushy Eurasian shrub with golden yellow flowers and reddish-purple fruits from which a soothing salve is made in Spain (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | great st john's wort, hypericum ascyron, hypericum pyramidatum, |
| definition | : | perennial shrub having large star-shaped yellow flowers in narrowly pyramidal cymes (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | creeping st john's wort, hypericum calycinum, |
| definition | : | creeping evergreen shrub with bright yellow star-shaped summer flowers; useful as ground cover (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | hypericum gentianoides, nitweed, orange grass, pine-weed, pineweed, |
| definition | : | annual wiry-stemmed North American weed with minute scalelike leaves and small yellow flowers (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | hypericum crux andrae, st andrews's cross, |
| definition | : | shrubby plant having yellow to apricot flowers with four petals arranged in a cross; southeastern United States: New York to Texas (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | hypericum hypericoides, low st andrew's cross, |
| definition | : | low shrubby plant having yellow flowers with four petals arranged in a cross; Bermuda and southeastern United States to West Indies and eastern Mexico (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | hypericum perforatum, klammath weed, |
| definition | : | yellow-flowered perennial common in fields and waste places but a weed in rangelands (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | hypericum prolificum, hypericum spathulatum, shrubby st john's wort, |
| definition | : | stiff shrub having oblong entire leaves and dense cymes of yellow flowers (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | hypericum maculatum, hypericum tetrapterum, st peter's wort, |
| definition | : | European perennial St John's wort; Ireland and France to western Siberia (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | hypericum virginianum, marsh st-john's wort, |
| definition | : | perennial marsh herb with pink to mauve flowers; southeastern United States (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | genus hypericum, hypericum, |
| definition | : | large almost cosmopolitan genus of evergreen or deciduous shrubs and herbs with often showy yellow flowers; cosmopolitan except tropical lowlands and Arctic or high altitudes and desert regions (noun.plant) |
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