Figwort definition

fĭgwûrt, -wôrt
Any of various plants of the genus Scrophularia having loose branching clusters of small greenish or purple flowers.
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Designating a large family (Scrophulariaceae, order Scrophulariales) of dicotyledonous plants, including the foxglove and snapdragon.
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Any of a genus (Scrophularia) of plants of the figwort family, with square stems and small flowers.
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Any of various woodland herbs and shrubs of the genus Scrophularia.
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Noun

Singular:
figwort
Plural:
figworts

Origin of figwort

  • fig piles (obsolete) wort (from its use as a folk medicine)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • fig +‎ wort

    From Wiktionary

Figwort Sentence Examples

  • The USDA APHIS reviews indicate that promoters such as figwort mosaic virus or rice actin are often employed.

  • There are patches of water mint, and heath rush, with scattered water figwort and marsh thistle.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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