woundwortn.
/ˈwuːndwəːt/, U.S. /ˈwundˌwərt/, /ˈwundˌwɔrt/ 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).
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boneworteOE
springworteOE
atterlothec1000
halswortc1000
bruisewortOE
motherworta1200
panax?a1200
bloodworta1300
serpentinea1400
tutsana1400
wartworta1400
wormseeda1400
grace of God?c1400
nailworta1425
Gratia Dei?c1425
sanguinaryc1440
panacea1522
parthenium1548
woundwort1548
wart-weed1573
cardiaca1578
hermodactyl1578
panacea1590
holy seed1597
whitlow-grass1597
feverwort1611
fever and ague root1676
rattlesnake root1682
snake-root1712
cancer root1714
fever-root1739
strongback1739
rheumatism root1835
heal-all1853
wound-weed1857
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations to heal or generate tissue > [noun] > for healing wounds or fractures > for healing wounds > plant-derived or plant
comfreyc1265
wound-rocket1548
woundwort1548
wound-herb1597
dittany1624
wound-shrub1659
wound-weed1857
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. H.iiijv Solidago seracenica..is called in duch Heidnishe wuntkraut... It may be called in english Woundewurte.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 347 Saracenes Consounde is called in Latine Solidago Saracenica,..in English..Saracenes Woundwoort.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 349 Of captaine Andreas Doreas his Woundwoort.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 677 It seemeth to be Stratiotes aquatilis, or Stratiotes potamios, or Knights water Woundwoort.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 851 Of Clownes Woundwoort, or Alheale.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 852 Whereupon I haue named it Clounes Woundwoort.
1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 693 Achillea Sideritis lutea. Achilles yellow Woundwort.
1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden ccxli. 381 Allheale..is called in English Hercules Allheale, and Hercules Woundwort.
1718 N. Rowe tr. Lucan Pharsalia ix. 1566 Woundwort and Maiden-weed perfume the Air.
1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 320 The downy Wound-worth [sic]..is a native of..Jamaica. It should be a fine vulnerary.
1796 C. Burney Mem. Life Metastasio I. 364 You speak to me of dittany and wound-wort.
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 531 Stachys sylvatica,..Hedge Nettle Woundwort.
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 728 Common Goldenrod. Woundwort. Solidago Virga-aurea.
1819 A. Rees Cycl. XXXVIII Wound-Wort, Hercules's, or All-heal, the laserpitium chironium of Linnæus.
1852 G. W. Johnson Cottage Gardeners' Dict. Anthyllis vulneraria (common woundwort).
1857 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. IV. 190 Stachys sylvatica (Hedge Woundwort).
1857 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. IV. 191 Stachys palustris (Marsh Woundwort).
1857 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. IV. 192 Stachys Germanica (Downy Woundwort).
1857 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. IV. 193 Stachys arvensis (Corn Woundwort).
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