Crossword clues for toothwort
The Collaborative International Dictionary
crinkle root \crinkle root\, crinkleroot \crinkleroot\n. a North American herb ( Dentaria diphylla) with pungent scaly or toothed roots; -- called also toothwort.
Syn: pepper root, toothwort, Cardamine diphylla, Dentaria diphylla.
Coralwort \Cor"al*wort`\, n. (Bot.) A cruciferous herb of certain species of Dentaria; -- called also toothwort, tooth violet, or pepper root.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of several species of flowering plants, of the genus (taxlink Lathraea genus noshow=1). 2 Any of several species of plants in the former genus ''Dentaria'' (now considered part of the genus ''Cardamine'')
WordNet
n. North American herb with pungent scaly or toothed roots [syn: crinkleroot, crinkle-root, crinkle root, pepper root, Cardamine diphylla, Dentaria diphylla]
Wikipedia
Toothwort is a common name for several plants and may refer to:
- Dentaria, a former genus of plants in the Brassicaceae family now classified in the genus Cardamine
- Lathraea, a genus of parasitic plants in the Orobanchaceae family native to Europe and Asia
Usage examples of "toothwort".
Leafless herbs like beechdrops, lavender toothwort, and various bright-flowered small orchids, often without green leaves, were everywhere, growing from the roots of other living plants or their decaying remains.
There was the herb Paris, famous for rheumatism, and toothwort for toothache, and the wood vetch, the seeds of which were a sure remedy against the cholic.
Leafless herbs like beechdrops, lavender toothwort, and various bright-flowered small orchids, often without green leaves, were everywhere, growing from the roots of other living plants or their decaying remains.
Flossy catkins of the later kinds, fern-sprouts like bishops’ croziers, the square-headed moschatel, the odd cuckoo-pint,—like an apoplectic saint in a niche of malachite,—snow-white ladies’-smocks, the toothwort, approximating to human flesh, the enchanter’s night-shade, and the black-petaled doleful-bells, were among the quainter objects of the vegetable world in and about Weatherbury at this teeming time.
Daniel picked one up and read it: “Mule fern, panic-grass, hartstongue, adderstongue, moonwort, sea novelwort, wrack, Job’s-tears, broomrope, toothwort, scurvy-grass, sowbread, golden saxifrage, lily of the valley, bastard madder, stinking ground-pine, endive, dandelion, sowthistle, Spanish picktooth, purple loose-strife, bitter vetch.