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coralwort

noun

Etymology

From coral + wort.

  1. inherited from *wréh₂ds✻ — “a root”
  2. inherited from *wrōts✻ — “a root”
  3. inherited from *wurti✻ — “a root; a spice”
  4. inherited from wyrt — “a plant; vegetable; herb, spice”
  5. inherited from wort
  6. compounded as coralwort — “coral + wort”

Definitions

  1. A parasitic plant of certain species of genus Lathraea (family Orobanchaceae).

  2. Any plant now classified in the subgenus Cardamine subg. Dentaria (family Brassicaceae),…

    Any plant now classified in the subgenus Cardamine subg. Dentaria (family Brassicaceae), formerly genus Dentaria.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA