See Also: eupatorium(medicine)
eupatorium(dictionary)

contradistinction (iou) and eupatorium (iou)


contradistinction (iou)



contradistinction noun. M17.
[from CONTRA- + DISTINCTION. Cf. earlier COUNTERDISTINCTION.]
The action of contradistinguishing; distinction by contrast or opposition.
H. A. L. Fisher A country which..must, in contradistinction to the prevailing misery of the continent, have presented a spectacle of rare..prosperity.

eupatorium (iou)



eupatorium noun. M16.
[mod. Latin from Greek eupatorion agrimony, Agrimonia eupatoria, from Mithridates Eupator (120-63 BC), king of Pontus: see -IUM.]
Any of various plants of the genus Eupatorium, of the composite family, largely of tropical America but including one British native, the hemp agrimony, E. cannabinum.