Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A common name for certain verrucariaceous lichens, so called from the warty appearance of the thallus.
- noun Same as
wartweed . The name is occasionally applied also to the wart-cress or swine-cress, Senebiera Coronopus, and the cudweed, Gnaphalium uliginosum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A name given to several plants because they were thought to be a cure for warts, as a kind of spurge (
Euphorbia Helioscopia ), and the nipplewort (Lampsana communis ).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various
plants , including thespurge and thenipplewort , formerly believed to curewarts .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun not unattractive European weed whose flowers turn toward the sun
Etymologies
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wart + wort
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