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American spikenard

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Definition of American spikenard

: spikenard sense 2a On the moss-covered boulder at the edge of the creek was a handsome American spikenard, a perennial that grows in similar habitats in the eastern United States.— Robert H. Mohlenbrock, Natural History, March 1989

First Known Use of American spikenard

1801, in the meaning defined above

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