masterwort
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Noun[edit]
masterwort (countable and uncountable, plural masterworts)
- Peucedanum ostruthium, an umbelliferous plant grown in gardens, formerly much used for medicinal purposes. [from 16th c.]
- 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 184:
- The root of Masterwort is hotter than Pepper, and very available in all cold griefs and diseases both of stomach and body, dissolving very powerfully upward and downward.
- Astrantia spp., such as the great masterwort.
- Ground elder (Aegopodium podagraria).
Translations[edit]
Peucedanum ostruthium
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Astrantia spp.
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Aegopodium podagraria — see ground elder