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smearwort

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
smear-wort
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Aristolochia rotunda, a herbaceous perennial plant native to Southern Europe.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Blitum bonus-henricus (Good King Henry, English mercury)

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From Middle English smērewort, from Old English smeoruwyrt from smeoru (“ointment”) + wyrt (“herb”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: smērewort, smeoruwyrt

Usage

Inflected Forms

smearworts (plural)

Questions

What does smearwort mean?
Aristolochia rotunda, a herbaceous perennial plant native to Southern Europe.
Where does smearwort come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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