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Named for the plants' supposed ability to cure scrofula figworts
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scrophularia
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scrophularia \Scroph`u*la"ri*a\, n. [NL. So called because it was reputed to be a remedy for scrofula.] (Bot.) A genus of coarse herbs having small flowers in panicled cymes; figwort.
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"Figwort" redirects here. This is also used for some other plants; see below. The genus Scrophularia of the family Scrophulariaceae comprises about 200 species of herbaceous flowering plants commonly known as figworts . Species of Scrophularia all share ...
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The Water Figwort has obtained the name of Water Betony from a certain resemblance of its leaves to those of the Wood Betony, but it differs entirely from that plant in every other respect, not being even closely related to it, and nowadays is more generally called the Water Figwort, the name Figwort being derived from the form of the root in another member of the genus Scrophularia, the Knotted Figwort (S.