sealwort
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]sealwort (countable and uncountable, plural sealworts)
- Synonym of Solomon's seal
- 1990, Zhengcai Liu, The mystery of longevity, →ISBN, page 160:
- The main reason for their longevity was digging up sealwort (Polygonatum sibiricum), the rhizome of Chinese atractylodes and the rhizome of large-headed atractylodes (Atractylodes macrocephala) for use as food.
- 2001, Takako Yamada, The World View of the Ainu, →ISBN:
- Also, the smaller-sized sealwort, Polygonatum falatum, in contrast with the etororatkip (Polygonatum odoratum var. pluriflorum) of the same genus, is called pon-etororatkip.
- A variety of pearlwort, Sagina procumbens
- 2013, Kurtis R. Schaeffer, Matthew T. Kapstein, Gray Tuttle, Sources of Tibetan Tradition, →ISBN, page 464:
- These days most of the relics are fabricated deceitfully, [such as those made from] a hollowed-out rock, the fruit of a sealwort, a fish eye, or remains fashioned by Nepalese, and must be analyzed by scholars.