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spleenwort spleen·wort

Spelling: [spleen-wurt, -wawrt]

IPA: /ˈsplinˌwɜrt, -ˌwɔrt/

Spleenwort is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 763 anagrams from letters in spleenwort (eelnoprstw).

Definitions for spleenwort

noun

1. any of various temperate and tropical ferns of the genera Asplenium and Diplazium, certain species of which are grown as ornamentals.

Origin of spleenwort

First recorded in 1570-80; spleen + wort²

Examples for spleenwort

spleenwort is excellent good for melancholy people, helps the stranguary and breaks the Stone in the bladder.

Still other species of ferns are known to hybridize more or less, as we saw in the case of Scott's spleenwort.

Black and white maidenhair, spleenwort, hartstongue, and golden maidenhair.