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setterwort
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun setterwort has 1 sense
- setterwort(n = noun.plant) bear's foot, helleborus foetidus, stinking hellebore - digitate-leaved hellebore with an offensive odor and irritant qualities when taken internally; Array is a kind of hellebore
CIDE DICTIONARY
setterwort, n.
The bear's-foot (Helleborus f); -- so called because the root was used in settering, or inserting setons into the dewlaps of cattle. Called also pegroots . Dr. Prior. [1913 Webster]
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