noun
- a woodland plant of the parsley family with small white or pinkish flowers and leaves that were traditionally used for healing
Usage: botanical
Examples
- The sanicle grew in shaded areas of the forest floor.
- Medieval herbalists valued sanicle for its supposed medicinal properties.
- We found clusters of sanicle blooming near the old oak tree.
- The delicate white flowers of the sanicle appeared in early summer.
- Sanicle was once called ‘self-heal’ by traditional healers.
- The botanist identified the plant as European sanicle.