scoparius
UK/skəʊˈpɛəɹi.əs/US/skoʊˈpɛɹi.əs/
scoparius noun: the dried tops of the plant Cytisus scoparius, formerly used in medicine.
Noun
scoparius (uncountable)
- The dried tops of the plant Cytisus scoparius, formerly used in medicine.
- Scoparin […] is used — chiefly as a constituent of scoparius — for its diuretic action in certain forms of dropsy.1895, Henry Martyn Bracken, Outlines of Materia Medica and Pharmacology, page 255
Origin of scoparius
From Latin scōpārius.
Words that rhyme with scoparius
- cibarious
- scarious
- Stradivarius
- tartareous
- vagarious
- vicarious
- Aquarius
- atrabilarious
- calcareous
- contrarious
- hilarious
- lampadarius
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- librarius
- malarious
- multifarious
- omnifarious
- precarious
- riparious
- testudinarious
- various
- acinarious
- adversarious
- anticarious
- apocrisarius
- apocrisiarius
- arbitrarious
- arenarious
- argillocalcareous
- armarius
- assarius
- atramentarious
- Belisarius
- bordarius
- burglarious
- caeremoniarius
- calcarious
- carious
- confessarius
- corneo-calcareous
- cotarius
- duplicarius
- filarious
- fimetarious
- frumentarious
- glareous
- howlarious
- lapidarious
- librarious
- multivarious
- nectareous
- nectarious
- nefarious
- nightmarious
- noncalcareous
- noncarious
- nongregarious
- nonmalarious
- nonvicarious
- octarius
- octofarious
Questions about scoparius
- What does scoparius mean?
- Scoparius means the dried tops of the plant Cytisus scoparius, formerly used in medicine.
- What part of speech is scoparius?
- Scoparius is a noun.
- How do you pronounce scoparius?
- Scoparius is pronounced /skəʊˈpɛəɹi.əs/ (UK).
Words near scoparius in the dictionary
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