feverwort

English
feverwort (Centaurium sebaeoides)
feverwort (Triosteum perfoliatum)

Etymology

fever +‎ wort

Noun

feverwort (countable and uncountable, plural feverworts)

  1. A plant of the genus Centaurium.
  2. Any of the genus Triosteum of plants, especially Triosteum perfoliatum

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “feverwort”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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