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ARISTOLOCHIA (Gr. apwros, best, Xoxeia, child-birth, in allusion to its repute in promoting child-birth)

ARISTOLOCHIA (Gr. apwros, best, Xoxeia, See also:
CHILD
CHILD, FRANCIS JAMES (1825-1896)
CHILD, L
CHILD, LYDIA MARIA (1802-1880)
CHILD, SIR FRANCIS (1642-1713)
CHILD, SIR JOHN (d. 1690)
CHILD, SIR JOSIAH (163o - 1699)
child-See also:
BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")
birth, in allusion to its repute in promoting child-birth) , a genus of shrubs or herbs of the natural See also:

order Aristolochiaceae, often with climbing stems, found chiefly in the tropics. The See also:

flower forms a See also:

TUBE (Lat. tuba)

tube inflated at the See also:

BASE

base. A. Clematitis, birthwort, is a central and See also:

SOUTHERN

southern See also:

EUROPEAN

European See also:

SPECIES

species, found sometimes in See also:

England apparently See also:

WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725)

wild on ruins and similar places, but not a native. A. Sipho, Dutchman's See also:

PIPE

pipe, or pipe See also:

VINE

vine, is a climber, native in the See also:

woods of the See also:

ATLANTIC

Atlantic See also:

UNITED

United States, and grown in See also:

EUROPE

Europe as a See also:

GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

garden plant. The flower is See also:

bent like a pipe. A member of the same order is the asarabacca (Asarum europaeum), a small creeping See also:

HERB (Lat. herba, grass, food for cattle, generally taken to represent the Old Lat. forbea, Gr. 4op(3i1, pasture, <0p/3Ew, to feed, Sans. bharb, to eat)

herb with See also:

KIDNEY

kidney-shaped leaves and small purplish See also:

bell-shaped See also:

FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

flowers. It is a native of the woods of Europe and See also:

north temperate See also:

ASIA

Asia, and occurs wild in some See also:

ENGLISH

English counties. It was formerly grown for medicinal purposes, the underground See also:

STEM (O. Eng. staefn, stemn, cf. Du. stain, Ger. Stamm, &c., probably related to " staff ")

stem having cathartic and emetic properties. An allied species, A. canadense, is the See also:

CANADIAN

Canadian snake-See also:

root, a native of See also:

CANADA

Canada and the Atlantic United States.

End of Article: ARISTOLOCHIA (Gr. apwros, best, Xoxeia, child-birth, in allusion to its repute in promoting child-birth)

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