celandines

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
3. Greater celandine (Chelidonium majus).
4. Lesser celandine (Ficaria verna, formerly Ranunculus ficaria).

   Synonyms:

   pilewort