masterwort
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈmɑːstəwəːt/
masterwort
- 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 2007, p. 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.
- 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society 2007, p. 184:
- Astrantia spp., such as the great masterwort.
- Ground elder (Aegopodium podagraria).
- French: impératoire
- German: Meisterwurz
- Portuguese: imperatória
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