pennywort

pennywort

English

Etymology

penny +‎ wort

Noun

pennywort (countable and uncountable, plural pennyworts)

1. A name given to several unrelated plants around the world. In general they all have round leaves of about the shape and size of a (pre-decimal) penny.
   1. (in Europe) A succulent, perennial flowering plant (Umbilicus rupestris; penny-pies, wall pennywort, kidney wort, navelwort) in the stonecrop family (Crassulaceae).
   2. (in Asia) The edible asiatic pennywort (Centella asiatica)
   3. Aquatic or semi-aquatic plants in the genus Hydrocotyle (water pennywort, Indian pennywort, marsh penny, thick-leaved pennywort, and white rot).
      1. such as the edible dollarweed (Hydrocotyle umbellata)
   4. Liverwort (Anemone hepatica, liverleaf)
   5. Virginian pennywort (Obolaria virginica)
   6. Cymbalaria muralis
   7. Cymbalaria aequitriloba, a plant with tiny ivy-like leaves with copious purple-pink flowers with yellow throats.

Derived terms

• Asiatic pennywort (Centella asiatica)
• common pennywort (Hydrocotyle vulgaris, Umbilicus intermedius)
• floating pennywort (Hydrocotyle ranunculoides)
• Indian pennywort (Centella asiatica, Bacopa monnieri)
• Java pennywort (Hydrocotyle javanica)
• largeleaf pennywort (Hydrocotyle bonariensis)
• lawn pennywort (Centella asiatica, syn. Hydrocotyle rotundifolia)
• March pennywort (Cymbalaria muralis, syn. Linaria cymbalaria)
• marsh pennywort (Hydrocotyle umbellata, Hydrocotyle vulgaris)
• pennywort begonia (Begonia hydrocotylifolia)
• shield pennywort (Hydrocotyle verticillata)
• slender pennywort (Hydrocotyle tripartita)
• wall pennywort (Umbilicus rupestris, syn. Cotyledon umbilicus)
• water pennywort (Hydrocotyle spp.)
• Virginian pennywort (Obolaria virginica)
• whorled pennywort (Hydrocotyle verticillata)

Translations

Umbilicus rupestris

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