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pennywort definition

penny·wort (pen′ē wʉrt′)

noun

any of various plants with small round leaves growing in crevices of rocks and walls or in marshy places, as any of a genus (Hydrocotyle) of perennial plants of the umbel family and a small North American plant (Obolaria virginica) of the gentian family

Etymology: ME penywort: see penny & wort

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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