Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name given to several plants, as the daisy (Bellis perennis), the soapwort (Saponaria officinalis), etc., from their supposed efficacy in healing bruises.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any
plant supposed to healbruises , such assoapwort orcomfrey .
Etymologies
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bruise + wort
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Examples
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BRESEWORT; if = brisewort or bruisewort, it would be _Sambucus
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
hernesheir commented on the word bruisewort
Another wort.
November 30, 2010