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Perennial herb of southeastern United States having white-rayed flower heads
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thoroughwort
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Word definitions for thoroughwort in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. perennial herb of southeastern United States having white-rayed flower heads; formerly used as in folk medicine [syn: boneset , agueweed , Eupatorium perfoliatum ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thoroughwort \Thor"ough*wort`\, n. Same as Boneset .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of several plants of the genus ''Eupatorium''. 2 The common boneset, (taxlink Eupatorium perfoliatum species noshow=1).
Usage examples of thoroughwort.
She brewed a great bowl of thoroughwort tea and carried it up to Mehitable.
But first she started the kitchen fire, and made another bowl of thoroughwort tea for Mehitable.
She had not eaten any breakfast, but her grandmother had kindly made her some thoroughwort tea.
They were flying home to make amends to Mehitable, with kind words and kisses, and to take away the taste of the thoroughwort tea with sponge-cake and some of the best strawberry jam.
The conversation became at once professional after the briefest preliminaries, and he would stand twirling a sweet-scented sprig in his fingers, and make suggestive jokes, perhaps about her faith in a too persistent course of thoroughwort elixir, in which my landlady professed such firm belief as sometimes to endanger the life and usefulness of worthy neighbors.