chelidonium majus

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   perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers

   Synonymscelandinegreater celandineswallowwortswallow wort

   Broaderpoppy

   Part ofChelidonium

Questions about chelidonium majus

What does chelidonium majus mean?

chelidonium majus means "perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers".

What is another word for chelidonium majus?

Close synonyms include celandine, greater celandine, swallowwort, swallow wort. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chelidonium majus a common word?

chelidonium majus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.