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wartwort
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun wartwort has 1 sense
- wartwort(n = noun.plant) devil's milk, euphorbia helioscopia, sun spurge, wartweed - not unattractive European weed whose flowers turn toward the sun; Array is a member of euphorbia, genus euphorbia
is a kind of spurge
CIDE DICTIONARY
wartwort, n.
A name given to several plants because they were thought to be a cure for warts, as a kind of spurge (Euphorbia Helioscopia ), and the nipplewort (Lampsana communis ). [1913 Webster]
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