7 examples of dracunculus in sentences

[Illustration: TARRAGON.] TARRAGON.The leaves of this plant, known to naturalists as Artemisia dracunculus, are much used in France as a flavouring ingredient for salads.

Some have only the Latin plural, which usually changes us to i; as, alumnus, alumni; androgynus, androgyni; calculus, calculi; dracunculus, dracunculi; echinus, echini; magus, magi.

It is Dracunculus vulgaris, and derives its name from its stem, which is spotted like a snake.

The leaf in dracunculus has a very peculiar shape; it consists of a number of lobes which are disposed upon a stalk which is more or less forked (tends more or less to dichotomize).

Similarly, the blue-bottle (Musca vomitoria), which instinctively ought to place its eggs in putrified flesh, lays them in the blossom of the Arum dracunculus, because it is misled by the decaying odour of this plant.

Artemisia Dracunculus.

675 Arum Dracunculus Long-sheathed Arum c.m. 676 venosum Varied ditto c.m. MONOECIA PENTANDRIA.

7 examples of  dracunculus  in sentences