Pennywort Definition

pĕnē-wûrt, -wôrt
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.
Webster's New World
A Eurasian plant (Umbilicus rupestris) having fleshy peltate leaves and a tall stalk of yellowish-green flowers.
American Heritage
Any of various other plants having rounded leaves suggestive of pennies.
American Heritage

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Singular:
pennywort
Plural:
pennyworts

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