Usually means: Herbal remedy for respiratory issues.
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  1. pleurisy root: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. pleurisy root: Collins English Dictionary
  3. pleurisy root: Vocabulary.com
  4. pleurisy-root, pleurisy root: Wordnik
  5. pleurisy root: Wiktionary
  6. pleurisy root: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. pleurisy root: Dictionary.com
  8. pleurisy root: Rhymezone
  9. pleurisy root: FreeDictionary.org
  10. pleurisy root: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. pleurisy root: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pleurisy Root: Health & Beauty Glossary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pleurisy-root, pleurisy root: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pleurisy root: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  3. pleurisy root: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pleurisy Root: Beauty & Health Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pleurisy root)

noun:  The large tuberous root of a kind of milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa), used as a remedy for pleuritic and other diseases.
noun:  The plant itself, which has deep orange-coloured flowers; butterfly weed.

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