whitlowwort

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• March 4. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  whitlowwort — noun — english

  any of various low-growing tufted plants of the genus Paronychia having tiny greenish flowers and usually whorled leaves; widespread throughout warm regions of both Old and New Worlds; formerly thought to cure whitlows (suppurative infections around a fingernail)