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celandine

/ˈsɛləndaɪn/

celandine noun: any plant of the genus Chelidonium.

Noun

celandine (countable and uncountable, plural celandines)

  1. Any plant of the genus Chelidonium.
  2. Either of two not closely related flowering plants
    • So men haue learned many precious remedies for many diseases euen by brute [beasts], as we see by the swallow, who hath taught vs that the ioice of Celandine is singuler for the eies, for that she restoreth sight to her yong ones with Celandine.1595, Thomas Johnson, Cornucopiæ, London: William Barley
    • 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!1786, “From The Miners of Pherecrates”, in Richard Cumberland, transl., The Observer, volume 3, number 78, page 175
  3. Greater celandine (Chelidonium majus).
  4. Lesser celandine (Ficaria verna, formerly Ranunculus ficaria).
    Synonyms:
    pilewort

celandine meaning in Tamil

celandine in Tamil

மஞ்சள் நிற மலருள்ள செடிவகை

Examples of celandine in a sentence

  • 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.1950, C. S. Lewis, chapter 11, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Collins, published 1998:
  • The poor but lovely bird sat there, posing among the celandines and wood anemones, wondering why its wing-tips were frozen together.2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 26:

Synonyms of celandine

Forms of celandine

pluralcelandines

Origin of celandine

From Middle English celidoine, Old French celidoine, French chélidoine, from Latin chelīdonia, from chelīdonius (“relating to the swallow”), from Ancient Greek χελιδόνιος (khelidónios), χελιδών (khelidṓn). It was traditionally supposed to flower when the swallows appeared, and to perish when they departed.

Words formed from celandine

Phrases with celandine

Questions about celandine

What does celandine mean?
Celandine means any plant of the genus Chelidonium.
What is celandine in Tamil?
Celandine in Tamil is மஞ்சள் நிற மலருள்ள செடிவகை. See Celandine meaning in Tamil.
How do you use celandine in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is celandine?
Celandine is a noun.
How do you pronounce celandine?
Celandine is pronounced /ˈsɛləndaɪn/.
What is the plural of celandine?
The plural of celandine is celandines.

Words near celandine in the dictionary

  1. celadonite
  2. celadonites
  3. celadons
  4. celamim
  5. celamims
  6. celandine
  7. celandine poppies
  8. celandine poppy
  9. celandines
  10. celanide
  11. Celano

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Adapted from Wiktionary: celandine (page history and authors); celandine (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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