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n. - Evergreen low-growing perennial having mottled green and silvery-grey pungent foliage; Wild ginger having persistent pungent foliage.

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  • True delicacy, that most beautiful heart-leaf of humanity, exhibits itself most significantly in little things.
  • Gretchen was stirring before Ottilie awoke, and must needs run out to pluck a fern-spray and a heart-leaf, and mayhap a lingering tiger-lily, that her beloved
  • In four or five days, the cord will slough off; the naval should then be anointed with an ointment made by stewing heart-leaf root, or bearsfoot root in fresh butter.
  • All the mouldings were carved with the “egg-and-dart,” heart-leaf and anthemion ornaments, so designed as to recall by their outline the profile of the moulding itself.
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