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wood betony

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.40 in modern English

Syllables
wood -betony
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any member of the species Betonica officinalis (syn. Stachys officinalis), of North Africa and temperate Europe and Asia.

Uncountable

noun

Any member of the species Pedicularis canadensis of perennial herb, which are partial parasites of roots and have been used in traditional medicine, found in most of North America east of the Rockies.

Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

wood betonies (plural)

Questions

What does wood betony mean?
Any member of the species Betonica officinalis (syn. Stachys officinalis), of North Africa and temperate Europe and Asia.

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