designating a large family (Scrophulariaceae, order Scrophulariales) of dicotyledonous plants, including the foxglove and snapdragon
any of a genus (Scrophularia) of plants of the figwort family, with square stems and small flowers
figwort
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figwort
noun
Any of various plants of the genus Scrophularia having loose branching clusters of small greenish or purple flowers.
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fig 1 piles (obsolete) wort 1 ( from its use as a folk medicine )THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Sentence Examples
- Hemiphragma - H. heterophylla, is a dwarf trailing plant of the Figwort family, bearing inconspicuous flowers, succeeded by bright red berries about the size of small peas, on slender creeping stems.
- Cape Figwort (Phygelius) - P. capensis, a Cape plant of some beauty, 3 or 4 feet high, and bearing racemes of brilliant scarlet flowers, which open in May and June and continue far into autumn.
- Chaenostoma - A small group of the Figwort family, natives of the Cape.
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