noun
- a poisonous plant of the buttercup family with blue or purple flowers, whose seeds were formerly used medicinally
Usage: botanical; historical
Examples
- The herbalist warned against using stavesacre without proper knowledge of its toxic properties.
- Medieval physicians sometimes prescribed stavesacre seeds to treat lice infestations.
- Stavesacre grows wild in Mediterranean regions and parts of Asia.
- The blue flowers of stavesacre make it recognizable in the wild.
- Modern medicine has replaced stavesacre with safer alternatives for pest control.