wortlore
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The traditional knowledge of the medicinal and nutritional use of plants, herbs, and worts.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "They will come up each year from between the Rhododendrons, and will send their sweet subtle odour through the open windows into the house. And as I write I am told of a recipe showing how, in the Wortlore of old, the firm white petals were esteemed of use."
- "This may often have been the case in many instances of horse whispering tricks, but the interview with former race-horse trainer, Paul Harriss, for Alphard magazine reveals that there is more to the true whisperer than mere tricks and wortlore: [...]"
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Inflected Forms
wort-lore (alternative)