LAMBKILL Definition & Meaning

lambkill

[ lam-kil ]

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noun

sheep laurel.

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Origin of lambkill¹

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

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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.

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