WHITLOWWORT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does whitlowwort mean? 

• WHITLOWWORT (noun)
  The noun WHITLOWWORT has 1 sense:

1. 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)

  Familiarity information: WHITLOWWORT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHITLOWWORT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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)

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("whitlowwort" is a kind of...):

ground cover; groundcover (low-growing plants planted in deep shade or on a steep slope where turf is difficult to grow)

Holonyms ("whitlowwort" is a member of...):

genus Paronychia; Paronychia (low-growing annual or perennial herbs or woody plants; whitlowworts)