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lousewort

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
louse-wort
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of very many semiparasitic flowering plants, of the genus Pedicularis, related to wood betony.

Etymology

From louse + wort.

Inflected Forms

louseworts (plural)

Phrases

beaked lousewort brown lousewort common lousewort leafy lousewort red lousewort tuberous lousewort white lousewort whorled lousewort

Questions

What does lousewort mean?
Any of very many semiparasitic flowering plants, of the genus Pedicularis, related to wood betony.
Where does lousewort come from?
From louse + wort.

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