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Having the qualities of a potherb.

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Usage examples (3)
  • The channel had become filled with reeds, and great quantities of enormous milk or sow thistle (Sonchus oleraceous).
  • At Cumana I heard it derived in a manner somewhat far-fetched from the Spanish word cogollo, signifying the heart of oleraceous plants.
  • According to Sykes it constructs its nest of oleraceous herbs in the fields, and Hodgson states it to tenant woods and coppices in Nepal.
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