moderwort
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motherwort — /mudh euhr werrt , wawrt /, n. a European plant, Leonorus cardiaca, of the mint family, an introduced weed in the U.S., having cut leaves with a whorl of lavender flowers in the axils. [1350 1400; ME moderwort (see MOTHER1, WORT2), so called… … Universalium
motherwort — [muth′ərwʉrt΄] n. [ME moderwort (see MOTHER1 & WORT2): from the notion that it was helpful in curing diseases of the womb] any of a genus (Leonurus) of weedy plants of the mint family; esp., an Old World perennial ( L. cardiaca) with pink or… … English World dictionary
