See Also: Polemonium(medicine)
polemonium(dictionary)
trawl(medicine)
trawl(1)(dictionary)
trawl(2)(dictionary)
trawl 1, verb(dictionary)
trawl 2, noun(dictionary)

trawl 2, noun (oh) and polemonium (iou)


trawl 2, noun (oh)



2 n [C]
an act of searching through a lot of documents, lists etc in order to find something
also trawl net
a wide net that is pulled along the bottom of the sea to catch fish

polemonium (iou)



polemonium noun. E20.
[mod. Latin (see below), from Greek polemonion Jacob's ladder (plant), of uncertain origin.]
Any plant of the genus Polemonium (family Polemoniaceae), members of which (e.g. Jacob's ladder, P. caeruleum) bear single or clustered bell-shaped flowers.