See Also: Pulsatilla(medicine)
pulsatilla(dictionary)

one-two (oh) and pulsatilla (iou)


one-two (oh)



n [C]
a movement in which a boxer hits his opponent with one hand and then quickly with the Other
::Ali gives his opponent the old one-two , and it's all over.

pulsatilla (iou)



pulsatilla noun. L16.
[mod. Latin (see below), dim. of Latin pulsatus beaten about, i.e. 'the flower beaten by the wind'.]
Any of various spring-flowering plants constituting the genus Pulsatilla, closely allied to the anemones but with the perianth segments downy outside; esp. pasque-flower, P. vulgaris. Also, a medicinal extract or tincture of this plant.