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whitlowwort |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Whitlow-wort \Whit"low-wort`\, n. (Bot.) Same as {Whitlow grass}, under {Whitlow}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: whitlowwort n : any of various low-growing tufted plants of the genus Paronychia having tiny greenish flowers and usually whorled leaves; widespread throughout warm regions of both Old and New Worlds; formerly thought to cure whitlows (suppurative infections around a fingernail)
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