Masterwort definition

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Masterwort \Mas"ter*wort`\, n. (Bot.)
     (a) A tall and coarse European umbelliferous plant
         ({Peucedanum Ostruthium}, formerly {Imperatoria}).
     (b) The {Astrantia major}, a European umbelliferous plant
         with a showy colored involucre.
     (c) Improperly, the {cow parsnip} ({Heracleum lanatum}).


         [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  masterwort
       n : any plant of the genus Astrantia [syn: {astrantia}]

















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