Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name of several umbelliferous plants.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A tall and coarse European umbelliferous plant (
Peucedanum Ostruthium , formerlyImperatoria ). - noun The
Astrantia major , a European umbelliferous plant with a showy colored involucre. - noun Improperly, the
cow parsnip (Heracleum lanatum ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any plant of the genus Astrantia
Etymologies
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From master + wort.
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Examples
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One of the most interesting is a multi-year observation of altered life-cycles in local flora (like jewelweed, chickweed, masterwort, goldenrod, etc.) under the kudzu.
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There's wormwood, woodsorrel, masterwort, zedoary, and angelica; and lastly, there is a little bottle of the sovereign preservative against the plague, as prepared by the great Lord
Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire William Harrison Ainsworth 1843
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