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Definition of TORMENTIL

  • low European plant, Potentilla erecta, of the rose family, having small, bright-yellow flowers, and a strongly astringent root used in medicine and in tanning and dyeing
  • a small potentilla of heaths and moors having four-petalled yellow flowers and strongly astringent roots [n -S]