Plumbago

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. See graphite.
  • n. Any of various plants of the genus Plumbago; leadwort.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. graphite
  • n. leadwort
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Same as graphite.
  • n. A genus of herbaceous plants with pretty salver-shaped corollas, usually blue or violet; leadwort.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Black-lead; graphite. See graphite.
  • n. [capitalized] [NL. (Tournefort, 1700).] A genus of plants, the leadworts, of the order Plumbagineæ and tribe Plumbageæ. characterized by a glandular calyx with five short erect teeth, a salver-shaped corolla with slender tube, free stamens, and five styles united into one nearly to the top.
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  • n. used as a lubricant and as a moderator in nuclear reactors
  • n. any plumbaginaceous plant of the genus Plumbago
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