hypericum : Idioms & Phrases

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genus hypericum

  • noun 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
    Hypericum.
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hypericum androsaemum

  • noun deciduous bushy Eurasian shrub with golden yellow flowers and reddish-purple fruits from which a soothing salve is made in Spain
    tutsan; common St John's wort.
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hypericum ascyron

  • noun perennial shrub having large star-shaped yellow flowers in narrowly pyramidal cymes
    Hypericum ascyron; great St John's wort.
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hypericum calycinum

  • noun creeping evergreen shrub with bright yellow star-shaped summer flowers; useful as ground cover
    creeping St John's wort.
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hypericum crux andrae

  • noun shrubby plant having yellow to apricot flowers with four petals arranged in a cross; southeastern United States: New York to Texas
    St Andrews's cross.
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hypericum gentianoides

  • noun annual wiry-stemmed North American weed with minute scalelike leaves and small yellow flowers
    pineweed; pine-weed; orange grass; nitweed.
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hypericum hypericoides

  • noun low shrubby plant having yellow flowers with four petals arranged in a cross; Bermuda and southeastern United States to West Indies and eastern Mexico
    low St Andrew's cross.
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hypericum maculatum

  • noun European perennial St John's wort; Ireland and France to western Siberia
    Hypericum maculatum; St Peter's wort.
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hypericum perforatum

  • noun yellow-flowered perennial common in fields and waste places but a weed in rangelands
    klammath weed.
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hypericum prolificum

  • noun stiff shrub having oblong entire leaves and dense cymes of yellow flowers
    shrubby St John's wort; Hypericum prolificum.
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hypericum pyramidatum

  • noun perennial shrub having large star-shaped yellow flowers in narrowly pyramidal cymes
    Hypericum ascyron; great St John's wort.
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hypericum spathulatum

  • noun stiff shrub having oblong entire leaves and dense cymes of yellow flowers
    shrubby St John's wort; Hypericum prolificum.
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hypericum tetrapterum

  • noun European perennial St John's wort; Ireland and France to western Siberia
    Hypericum maculatum; St Peter's wort.
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hypericum virginianum

  • noun perennial marsh herb with pink to mauve flowers; southeastern United States
    marsh St-John's wort.
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