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English noun: whitlowwort

1. whitlowwort (plant) 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)


Broader (hypernym)ground cover, groundcover


Member meronymgenus Paronychia, Paronychia









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