brownwort

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English

A wild brownwort in flower.

Etymology

From brown +‎ wort.

Noun

brownwort (plural brownworts)

  1. A figwort of the species Scrophularia vernalis or of certain other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with inconspicuous coarse flowers.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for brownwort”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)