eu|pa|to|ri|um

eu|pa|to|ri|um «_YOO puh TR ee uhm, -TOHR-», noun.

any one of a large genus of composite plants, mostly perennial and native of America, with white or purplish flowers, as thoroughwort, joe-pye weed, and hemp agrimony, and especially a cultivated species, the mistflower.

╂[< New Latin Eupatorium < Greek eupatórion < (Mithridates) Eupátōr, King of Pontus, who first used the plants as medicine]