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Whitlowwort

noun
1.
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).






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Words linked to "Whitlowwort" :   ground cover, paronychia, genus Paronychia, groundcover



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