hartwort

English

Etymology

hart +‎ wort

Noun

hartwort (usually uncountable, plural hartworts)

A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (Tordylium maximum) or any plant of genus Tordylium.

Usage notes

The name is often vaguely given to other plants of the Apioideae subfamily, such as species of Seseli and Bupleurum.

Translations

plant of Europe

Greek: καυκαλήθρα (el) f (kafkalíthra)

Spanish: tordillo (es) m, tordilio m

References

Tordylium maximum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Tordylium maximum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Tordylium maximum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for hartwort in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)