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Elecampane vs Inula - What's the difference?

elecampane | inula |

As a noun elecampane

is a tall eurasian herb, , whose roots have been used medicinally.

As a proper noun inula is

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elecampane

English

(wikipedia elecampane) (wikispecies)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A tall Eurasian herb, , whose roots have been used medicinally

    • inula

    English

    (wikipedia inula) (wikispecies)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of several plants of the genus Inula , such as elecampane.
  • *1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 45:
  • *:In springtime the ruins are a blaze of contrapuntal colour: wild gladioli of magenta, bright yellow inulas and spiky acanthus thrust up among sarcophagi carpeted with tiny blue saxifrage and sprawled over by convolvulus with great pink trumpets.
  • The dried root of such a plant used as a stimulant.
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