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/fˈɪɡwɔːt/
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NOUN
- any of numerous tall coarse woodland plants of the genus Scrophularia
How To Use figwort In A Sentence
- We know by the colour of her burden under what friendly roof the bee asked alms this morning – whether she begged in the brown hut of the figwort or the rosy pavilion of the willow herb. The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
- In seeking to solve this new problem, we note first that the form crowdy-kit itself not only means ‘small fiddle,’ but also refers to a plant, not any kind of orchid, but Scrophularia aquatica, the water figwort.
- The familiar cultivated snapdragon is Antirrhinum majus is a member of the figwort, or snapdragon, family; other members of the family that have been cultivated for ornamental purposes include the beardtongues, the mulleins, the slipper flowers, the foxgloves and the speedwells (Veronica).
- A wedding," said Cadfael seriously, stacking away jars of salves and bottles of lotion made from alkanet, anemone, mint, figwort, and the grains of oats and barley, most of them herbs of Venus and the moon, "a wedding is the crux of two lives, and therefore no mean matter. The Leper of Saint Giles
- _H_, part of an inflorescence of figwort, _Scrophularia_ (_Scrophularineæ_), × 1. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
- The Figwort is named in Somersetshire "crowdy-kit Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
- _Mimulus_, etc., while a few like the figwort, _Scrophularia_ Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
- The water runs with the deep sparkle of cut glass; forget-me-nots grow about it, and reed mace, and figwort and bittersweet; waterhens wander in the shaven grass of its brim, and dabchicks go plump in the current like cricket-balls. Highways and Byways in Surrey
- Among the wildflowers are a red columbine, aster, figwort, wild sarsaparilla, fleabane, and avens.
- Objective To study the clearance rate in vitro of herb medicine Glabrous Sarcandra Herb and Figwort Root on the SAFR, making further discusses its pharmacological action mechanism.