lambkill

[lam-kil]

noun

1. sheep laurel.

Word History and Origins

Origin of lambkill¹

1805–15, lamb + kill ¹; so called because poisonous to sheep

Example Sentences

Botany cannot go farther than tell me the names of the shrubs which grow there—the high blueberry, panicled andromeda, lambkill, azalea, and rhodora—all standing in the quaking sphagnum.

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