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 meronym | genus Paronychia, Paronychia | ||