lambkilln.
North American.
(a) Andromeda mariana ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1888). (b) The sheep-laurel, Kalmia angustifolia.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > bay-tree and allies > [noun] > kalmia or American laurel
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1790 L. Castiglioni Viaggio negli Stati Uniti II. 271 K[almia] Angustifolia... Sheep poison, Ivy, Dwarf-Laurell, Lamb-kill.
1814 J. Bigelow Florula Bostoniensis 103 Kalmia angustifolia,..a low shrub with rose coloured flowers, very common in low grounds, and known by the names sheep poison, lambkill, low laurel, &c.
1832 W. D. Williamson Hist. Maine I. 116 The Lamb-kill..has been called mountain Laurel, Spoonwood, Ivy, and Calico Bush.
1851 S. Judd Margaret (rev. ed.) i. xiv. 143 Cymes of viburnums, rose-blooming lambkill.
1880 C. E. Bessey Bot. 510 Kalmia angustifolia, the Sheep Laurel or Lambkill.
1898 C. A. Creevey Flowers of Field 515 Lambkill..is a low shrub..with narrow, evergreen leaves in whorls of three.
1939 National Geographic Mag. Aug. 255/1 Other poisonous members of the heath family are the kalmias, frequently called ‘lamb~kill’ from the effect they have on grazing animals.
1954 C. J. Hylander Macmillan Wild Flower Bk. 281 Sheep laurel..is also known as lambkill because of the severely toxic substance in the leaves.
1965 E. Richardson Living Island 120 Not yet completely grown up in lambkill, wild-roses and blueberry bushes.
1974 A. J. Huxley Plant & Planet xxv. 283 In North America species of Kalmia..are known as Sheep-kill or Lamb-kill.
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