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Rue
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Rue
(Ruta) This herb is commonly known as Rue or Herb O'Grace. This ancient medicinal plant is a hardy perennial that grows upright to 2 feet high and 12 inches wide. Its attractive foliage is silvery blue-green, and in early summer, many stalks of pretty yellow flowers shoot up above the foliage. The l... Found op http://www.botany.com/ruta.html
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[n] - European strong-scented perennial herb with gray-green bitter-tasting leaves 2. [n] - leaves sometimes used for flavoring fruit or claret cup but should be used with great caution: can cause irritation like poison ivy Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=rue
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archaic or obsolete terms > Herbs & Plants: Rue (ruta graveolens) is a perennial that grows to 2 feet. It is a symbol of sorrow and repentance, sometimes called the Herb of Grace. It has been used to improve eyesight and nerves and to treat insect bite, gout, worms, rheumatism, and hysteria. In the ... Found op http://www.skyscript.co.uk/glossarytt.html
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Rue noun [ French rue , Latin ruta , akin to Greek ...; confer Anglo-Saxon r...de .] 1. (Botany) A perennial suffrutescent plant ( Ruta graveolens ), having a strong, heavy odor and a bitter taste; herb of grace... Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/102
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Rue transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Rued ; present participle & verbal noun Ruing .] [ Middle English rewen , reouwen , to grive, make sorry, Anglo-Saxon hr... Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/102
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Rue intransitive verb 1. To have compassion. [ Obsolete] « God so wisly [ i. e. , truly] on my soul rue .» Chaucer. « Which stirred men's hearts to rue upon them.» Ridley. 2. Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/102
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Rue noun [ Anglo-Saxon hreów . See Rue , transitive verb ] Sorrow; repetance. [ Obsolete] Shak. Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/102
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1. <botany> A perennial suffrutescent plant (Ruta graveolens), having a strong, heavy odour and a bitter taste; herb of grace. It is used in medicine. ... 'Then purged with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see.' (Milton) 'They [the exorcists] are to try the devil by holy w... Found op http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?rue
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noun (French) a street or road in France Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=rue
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noun leaves sometimes used for flavoring fruit or claret cup but should be used with great caution: can cause irritation like poison ivy Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=rue
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herb of grace noun European strong-scented perennial herb with grey-green bitter-tasting leaves; an irritant similar to poison ivy Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=rue
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• (n.) A perennial suffrutescent plant (Ruta graveolens), having a strong, heavy odor and a bitter taste; herb of grace. It is used in medicine. • (v. i.) To feel sorrow and regret; to repent. • (v. i.) To have compassion. • (n.) Fig.: Bitterness; disappointment; grief; regret. &... Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/rue/
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any plant of the genus Ruta, of the family Rutaceae, comprising 40 species of perennial shrubs and herbs native to Eurasia and the Canary Islands. ... Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/r/76
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Rue is a English girl name. The meaning of the name is `Bitter, Medicinal Plant` Where is it used? The name Rue is mainly used In English.If it`s too long people might use In English and In the bible: RuthSee also In Scandinavian, German, Italian, Spanish and In Polish: Rut In English: Ruthie The... Found op http://www.pregnology.com/index.php?girls/Rue
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[disambiguation] Rue (Ruta) is a genus of strongly scented evergreen shrubs in the family Rutaceae Rue may also refer to: ==Plants== ==Places== ==Other uses== ... Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rue_(disambiguation)
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Ruta angustifolia—Egyptian Rue Ruta chalepensis—Fringed Rue Ruta corsica—Corsican Rue Ruta graveolens—Common Rue Rue (Ruta) is a genus of strongly scented evergreen subshrubs 20–60 cm tall, in the family Rutaceae, native to the Mediterranean region, Macaronesia and southwest Asia. There a... Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rue
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rue, common name for various members of the family Rutaceae, a large group of plants distributed throughout temperate and tropical regions and most abundant in S Africa and Australia. Most species are woody shrubs or small trees; many are evergreen and bear spines. The family is characterized by the... Found op http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0842632.html
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Rue (Ruta graveolens) or herb of grace is a poisonous, perennial evergreen herb or sub shrub of the family Rutaceae, with erect, little-branched stems, which are often woody at the base. Its leaves, which are alternate, smooth, grey-green in colour, gland-dotted and two or three times pinnately divi... Found op http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/BR.HTM
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Shrubby perennial herb native to southern Europe and temperate Asia. It bears clusters of yellow flowers. An oil extracted from the strongly scented blue-green leaves is used in perfumery. (Ruta graveolens, family Rutaceae.) Found op http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0015099.html
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1) ... anemone 2) ... de la paix 3) ... family, which includes the citrus trees 4) ... the day 5) '13 ... madeleine' (1946 spy film) 6) 'for you there's rosemary and ...' Found op 'the winter's tale' 7) 'less than perfect' star 8) 'less tha
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