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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