celandine

English

Etymology

Middle English celidoine, Old French celidoine, French chélidoine, from Latin chelīdonia, from chelīdonius ‎(“relating to the swallow”), from Ancient Greek χελιδόνιος ‎(khelidónios), χελιδών ‎(khelidṓn).

Noun

celandine ‎(plural celandines)

1. Either of two unrelated flowering plants:
   1. The greater celandine (Chelidonium majus)
   2. The lesser celandine (Ficaria verna, formerly Ranunculus ficaria)
   • 1950, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Collins, 1998, Chapter 11,

     Coming suddenly round a corner into a glade of silver birch trees Edmund saw the ground covered in all directions with little yellow flowers—celandines.

Derived terms

• celandine poppy (Stylophorum diphyllum)

Translations

greater celandine

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 白屈菜 (zh) ‎(báiqūcài)

• German: Schöllkraut (de) n
• Russian: чистоте́л (ru) m ‎(čistotél)

lesser celandine

• Russian: лю́тик весе́нний m ‎(ljútik vesénnij), чистя́к (ru) m ‎(čistják)

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• Bulgarian: змийско мляко, жълтениче

Anagrams

• decennial, line dance