Whitlowwort

2 definitions found

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

  Whitlow-wort \Whit"low-wort`\, n. (Bot.)
     Same as {Whitlow grass}, under {Whitlow}.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  whitlowwort
       n : 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)