lambkill
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of lambkill
1805–15, lamb + kill 1; so called because poisonous to sheep
Example Sentences
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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.
From Walking by Thoreau, Henry David
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