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vegetable mercury

vegetable mercury noun: latex of the milkweeds of genus Calotropis.

Noun

vegetable mercury (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) Latex of the milkweeds of genus Calotropis.

Origin of vegetable mercury

Said to have effects on the human body similar to those of mercury.

Questions about vegetable mercury

What does vegetable mercury mean?
Vegetable mercury means latex of the milkweeds of genus Calotropis.
What part of speech is vegetable mercury?
Vegetable mercury is a noun.

Words near vegetable mercury in the dictionary

  1. vegetable leather
  2. vegetable leathers
  3. vegetable marrow
  4. vegetable marrows
  5. vegetable meat
  6. vegetable mercury
  7. vegetable mucus
  8. vegetable oil
  9. vegetable oils
  10. vegetable oyster
  11. vegetable parchment

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