WHORLYWORT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does whorlywort mean? 

• WHORLYWORT (noun)
  The noun WHORLYWORT has 1 sense:

1. a tall perennial herb having spikes of small white or purple flowers; common in eastern North America

  Familiarity information: WHORLYWORT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHORLYWORT (noun)

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Meaning:

A tall perennial herb having spikes of small white or purple flowers; common in eastern North America

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Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Culver's physic; Culver's root; Culvers physic; Culvers root; Veronicastrum virginicum; whorlywort

Hypernyms ("whorlywort" is a kind of...):

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Holonyms ("whorlywort" is a member of...):

family Scrophulariaceae; figwort family; foxglove family; Scrophulariaceae (a family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Polemoniales; includes figwort and snapdragon and foxglove and toadflax and speedwell and mullein; in some classifications placed in the order Scrophulariales)