Definitions for lungwort

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lungwort lung·wort

Spelling: [luhng-wurt, -wawrt]

IPA: /ˈlʌŋˌwɜrt, -ˌwɔrt/

Lungwort is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 168 anagrams from letters in lungwort (glnortuw).

Definitions for lungwort

noun

1. a European plant, Pulmonaria officinalis, of the borage family, having blue flowers.
2. any of various related plants of the genus Mertensia, as the North American M. virginica, having nodding clusters of blue flowers.

Origin of lungwort

before 1000; Middle English long-wort, lung-wort hellebore, Old English lungen-wyrt; see lung, wort²

Examples for lungwort

lungwort, however, was so called because the lichen Pulmonaria has a resemblance to lungs.

lungwort helps infirmities of the lungs, coughs and shortness of breath.

Nor was it the colour of her eyes, the deep pure blue of the lungwort, that blue loveliness seen in no other flower on earth.

The changing blue and pink flowers of the lungwort, somewhat characteristic of its family, are curious also.