Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The plant Cotyledon Umbilicus, of the order Crassulaceæ so called from some resemblance of the leaves to a kidney, whence probably it had some repute as a remedy in diseases of the kidneys.
- noun A book-name of Saxifraga stellaris, the starsaxifrage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of saxifrage
(Saxifrage stellaris) . - noun The navelwort.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
hepatica - noun
navelwort
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun widely spreading evergreen shrub of southwestern United States with flower heads in a leafy panicle
Etymologies
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kidney + wort
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