masterwort

masterwort

English

Etymology

From master +‎ wort.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːstəwəːt/

Noun

masterwort (countable and uncountable, plural masterworts)

1. Peucedanum ostruthium, an umbelliferous plant grown in gardens, formerly much used for medicinal purposes. [from 16th c.]
   • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society 2007, p. 184:

     The root of Masterwort is hotter than Pepper, and very available in all cold griefs and diseases both of stomach and body, dissolving very powerfully upward and downward.

2. Astrantia spp., such as the great masterwort.
3. Ground elder (Aegopodium podagraria).

Translations

Peucedanum ostruthium

Armenian: կայսերաբույս (hy) (kayserabuys), արքայիկ խոտ (arkʿayik xot) Bulgarian: самодивска трева f (samodivska treva) Catalan: imperatòria (ca) f Finnish: rohtosuoputki French: impératoire (fr) f German: Meisterwurz f Italian: imperatoria f Macedonian: сил m (sil) Polish: gorysz miarz m Portuguese: imperatória f

Astrantia spp.

Armenian: աստղաբույս (hy) (astłabuys) Finnish: tähtiputki (fi) French: (please verify) astrance (fr) German: (please verify) Sterndolde Italian: (please verify) astranzia (it) Polish: jarzmianka f Swedish: (please verify) Stjärnflockesläktet

Aegopodium podagraria — see ground elder

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