allheal

See also: all-heal

English

Alternative forms

• all-heal, all heal

Etymology

From all +‎ heal. Compare Latin panax and panacea.

Noun

allheal (plural allheals)

1. Any of several plants supposed to have broad healing powers.
   1. Prunella vulgaris, a species in the mint family.

      Synonyms: common self-heal, selfheal, heal-all, woundwort, heart-of-the-earth, carpenter's herb, brownwort

   2. Stachys, a genus of plants in the mint family, heal-all, self-heal, woundwort, betony, lamb's ears, hedgenettle.
   3. Valeriana officinalis, a species in the valerian family.

      Synonyms: garden valerian, garden heliotrope, setwall

      • [1986, Richard Adams, A Nature Diary, Penguin Group, →ISBN, page 82:

        Along the river Neb, at Ballig, the common valerian (Valeriana officinalis) is blooming thickly; tall, slender, pale pink, beautifully scented, moving in the wind. Also called ‘all-heal’, ‘cut-finger’ and ‘cat's love’.]

Translations

Prunella vulgaris

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: niittyhumala (fi)
• Latin: panax m
• Portuguese: erva-férrea (pt) f
• Russian: черноголо́вка обыкнове́нная f (černogolóvka obyknovénnaja)

Stachys — see woundwort

valerian — see valerian

See also

• heal-all
• selfheal
• valerian

References

• “allheal”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “allheal”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Lea Hall, heal-all, healall