celandine
    n 1: North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange
         flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil [syn:
         jewelweed, lady's earrings, orange balsam,
         celandine, touch-me-not, Impatiens capensis]
    2: perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow
       flowers [syn: celandine, greater celandine,
       swallowwort, swallow wort, Chelidonium majus]

Celandine \Cel"an*dine\ (s[e^]l"[a^]n*d[imac]n), n. [OE.
   celidoine, OF. celidoine, F. ch['e]lidoine, fr. L. chelidonia
   (sc. herba), fr. chelidonius pertaining to the swallow, Gr.
   chelido`nios, fr. chelidw`n the swallow, akin to L. hirundo a
   swallow.] (Bot.)
   A perennial herbaceous plant (Chelidonium majus) of the
   poppy family, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine
   in jaundice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is
   used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also greater
   celandine and swallowwort.
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   Lasser celandine, the pilewort (Ranunculus Ficaria).
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