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- noun Plural form of
lungwort .
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Examples
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Today, two are play-fighting among the lungworts and hellebores of my shady border.
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Yes, it is composed mainly of plants your grandparents may have grown: primroses and lady's mantle, spiderworts and lungworts.
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To make room in my hillside garden I removed some of the common lungworts (Pulmonaria), which have a habit of self-seeding everywhere.
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In the spring, for instance, after the willows have bloomed, when the fields still are bare, and the first flowers of the woods are the one resource of the bees, we shall see them eagerly visiting gorse and violets, lungworts and anemones.
The Life of the Bee Maurice Maeterlinck 1905
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The queen started laying again in the very first days of February, and the workers have flocked to the willows and nut-trees, gorse and violets, anemones and lungworts.
The Life of the Bee Maurice Maeterlinck 1905
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All lungworts, as these plants are commonly known, feature attractively spotted foliage.
SFGate: Top News Stories Erle Nickel 2011
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Tree lungworts would have been much more widespread in former times.
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Chief among these are the lichens known as tree lungworts and the filmy ferns, all of which occur within 30 miles of Whitehaven.
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On tree lungworts, spring snowflakes and filmy ferns ...
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Tree lungworts - or lobarias - are lichens and consist of a fungus and an alga living in intimate association as a symbiosis and yet resembling a single plant.
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