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woundwort|ˈwuːndwɜːt|
[f. wound n. + wort n.1, after Du. wondkruid, G. wundkraut.]
A popular name given to various plants from their use in healing wounds, esp. (a) one of the species of Stachys, often more fully as clown's woundwort, downy woundwort, marsh woundwort, etc.; (b) the golden-rod (Solidago Virgaurea); (c) the kidney-vetch (Anthyllis vulneraria); (d) the comfrey (Symphytum officinale); † (e) Saracen's woundwort (Senecio saracenicus); (f) Hercules' all-heal (Opopanax Chironium); (g) Knight's pondwort (Stratiotes aloides).
1548Turner Names of Herbes (E.D.S.) 87 Solidago seracenica..is called in duch Heidnishe wuntkraut... It may be called in english Woundewurte. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. xcvii. 347 Saracenes Consounde is called in Latine Solidago Saracenica,..in English..Saracenes Woundwoort. Ibid. xcix. 349 Of captaine Doreas his Woundwoort. Ibid. cclxxxv. 677 It seemeth to be Stratiotes aquatilis or Stratiotes potamios, or Knights water Woundwoort. Ibid. ccclxxiv. 851 Of Clownes Woundwoort or Alheale. Ibid. 852 Where⁓upon I haue named it Clounes Woundwoort. 1640Parkinson Theat. Bot. 693 Achillea Sideritis lutea. Achilles yellow Woundwort. 1657W. Coles Adam in Eden ccxli. 381 Allheale..is called in English Hercules Allheale, and Hercules Woundwort. 1718Rowe Lucan ix. 1566 Woundwort and Maiden-weed perfume the Air. 1756P. Browne Jamaica 320 The downy Woundworth [sic]..is a native of..Jamaica. It should be a fine vulnerary. 1796Burney Mem. Metastasio I. 364 You speak to me of dittany and wound-wort. 1796Withering Brit. Pl. III. 531 Stachys sylvatica,..Hedge Nettle Woundwort. Ibid. 728 Common Goldenrod. Woundwort. Solidago Virga-aurea. 1819Rees Cycl., Wound-Wort, Hercules's, or All-heal, the laserpitium chironium of Linnæus. 1852G. W. Johnson's Cottage Gard. Dict., Anthyllis vulneraria (common woundwort). 1857Anne Pratt Flower. Pl. IV. 190 Stachys sylvatica (Hedge Woundwort). Ibid. 191 Stachys palustris (Marsh Woundwort). Ibid. 192 Stachys Germanica (Downy Woundwort). Ibid. 193 Stachys arvensis (Corn Woundwort). |