Celandine

Quick meaning: Celandine is a noun meaning Any plant of the genus Chelidonium.

Meaning

Any plant of the genus Chelidonium.

More Meanings

1. Either of two not closely related flowering plants:

Example Sentences

The poor but lovely bird sat there, posing among the celandines and wood anemones, wondering why its wing-tips were frozen together.

Coming suddenly round a corner into a glade of silver birch trees Edmund saw the ground covered in all directions with little yellow flowers—celandines.

Buttercups, that will be seen, Whether we will see or no; Others, too, of lofty mien; They have done as worldlings do, Taken praise that should be thine, Little, humble Celandine!

If your mouth waters now, what had it done, / Cou’d you have seen our delicate fine thrushes / Hot from the spit, with myrtle-berries cramm’d, / And larded well with celandine and parsley, / Bob at your hungry lips, crying—Come eat me!

Word Forms

• celandines

Synonyms for celandine

Depending on context, synonyms include touch-me-not, jewelweed, swallowwort, swallow wort.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include jewelweed, touch-me-not, swallowwort, swallow wort, poppy, cuckooflower.

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