The plant comfrey (Symphytum officinale).

The English name of Symphytum officinale (family Boraginaceæ), a tall plant, common on margins of streams and ditches, with rough leaves, and…

= consound, n.

Erroneous uses. Through misunderstanding of the first element (as if wall, n.1) the name has been applied in Herbals, Dictionaries, etc. to the…

A herb to which healing virtues were attributed; the plant so called by the Romans is generally supposed to have been the comfrey (Symphytum offic…

The plant comfrey (genus Symphytum), esp. common comfrey, S. officinale (with allusion to the shape and rough texture of the leaves). Obsolete.

comfrey, Symphytum officinale, which has a black root used (esp. formerly) as a herbal remedy.

= knit-wort n.

old name for the Comfrey (Symphytum officinale).

the herb Comfrey.

Common comfrey, Symphytum officinale, (formerly) believed to have bone-healing properties. Cf. bonewort, n., knitbone n. (b) at knit, v.…