Chel·i·don·ic a. Chem. Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the celandine.
Chelidonic acid, a weak acid extracted from the celandine (Chelidonium majus), as a white crystalline substance.
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Cel·an·dine n. Bot. A perennial herbaceous plant (Chelidonium majus) of the poppy family, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine in jaundice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort.
Lasser celandine, the pilewort (Ranunculus Ficaria).
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Chelidonium majus
n : perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow
flowers [syn: celandine, greater celandine, swallowwort,
swallow wort]