celandine

celandine is a 9-letter English word with 3 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A perennial herbaceous plant (Chelidonium majus) of the poppy family, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine in jaundice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 16 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A perennial herbaceous plant (Chelidonium majus) of the poppy family, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine in jaundice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort.
2. noun. perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers

   Synonyms: swallowwort

3. noun. North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil

   Synonyms: jewelweed

Synonyms

swallowwort, jewelweed

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in celandine:

decennial

Common word forms

celandines

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