Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name of the plants Scrophularia aquatica and S. nodosa, derived from the color of the stems.
- noun A name of the self-heal, Brunella vulgaris, from its use in a disease of the throat called
die bräune (the brown) in German.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A species of figwort or Scrophularia (
Scrophularia vernalis ), and other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with inconspicuous coarse flowers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A species of
figwort or Scrophularia (Scrophularia vernalis), and other species of the samegenus , mostlyperennials withinconspicuous coarse flowers .
Etymologies
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brown + wort
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Examples
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She found brownwort, with its loose spike of strangely shaped brown flowers, in a damp and shady place near the water, and she collected the whole plants to make into a wash, for their skin-healing and itch-relieving properties.
The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990
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