Adderwort :: Adderwort (n.) The common bistort or snakeweed (Polygonum bistorta).

Awlwort :: Awlwort (n.) A plant (Subularia aquatica), with awl-shaped leaves..

Banewort :: Banewort (n.) Deadly nightshade.

Barrenwort :: Barrenwort (n.) An herbaceous plant of the Barberry family (Epimedium alpinum), having leaves that are bitter and said to be sudorific..

Bellwort :: Bellwort (n.) A genus of plants (Uvularia) with yellowish bell-shaped flowers.

Birthwort :: Birthwort (n.) A genus of herbs and shrubs (Aristolochia), reputed to have medicinal properties..

Bishop''s-wort :: Bishop's-wort (n.) Wood betony (Stachys betonica); also, the plant called fennel flower (Nigella Damascena), or devil-in-a-bush..

Bitterwort :: Bitterwort (n.) The yellow gentian (Gentiana lutea), which has a very bitter taste..

Bladderwort :: Bladderwort (n.) A genus (Utricularia) of aquatic or marshy plants, which usually bear numerous vesicles in the divisions of the leaves. These serve as traps for minute animals. See Ascidium..

Blameworthy :: Blameworthy (a.) Deserving blame; culpable; reprehensible.

Bloodwort :: Bloodwort (n.) A plant, Rumex sanguineus, or bloody-veined dock. The name is applied also to bloodroot (Sanguinaria Canadensis), and to an extensive order of plants (Haemodoraceae), the roots of many species of which contain a red coloring matter useful in dyeing..

Boragewort :: Boragewort (n.) Plant of the Borage family.

Brownwort :: Brownwort (n.) A species of figwort or Scrophularia (S. vernalis), and other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with inconspicuous coarse flowers..

Bruisewort :: Bruisewort (n.) A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey..

Bugwort :: Bugwort (n.) Bugbane.

Bullwort :: Bullwort (n.) See Bishop's-weed.

Burstwort :: Burstwort (n.) A plant (Herniaria glabra) supposed to be valuable for the cure of hernia or rupture.

Butterwort :: Butterwort (n.) A genus of low herbs (Pinguicula) having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insects adhere, after which the margin infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. The species are found mostly in the North Temperate zone..

Colewort :: Colewort (n.) A variety of cabbage in which the leaves never form a compact head.

Colewort :: Colewort (n.) Any white cabbage before the head has become firm.

Coralwort :: Coralwort (n.) A cruciferous herb of certain species of Dentaria; -- called also toothwort, tooth violet, or pepper root..

Cow''s Lungwort :: Cow's lungwort () Mullein.

Crosswort :: Crosswort (n.) A name given to several inconspicuous plants having leaves in whorls of four, as species of Crucianella, Valantia, etc..

Damewort :: Damewort (n.) A cruciferrous plant (Hesperis matronalis), remarkable for its fragrance, especially toward the close of the day; -- called also rocket and dame's violet..

Danewort :: Danewort (n.) A fetid European species of elder (Sambucus Ebulus); dwarf elder; wallwort; elderwort; -- called also Daneweed, Dane's weed, and Dane's-blood. [Said to grow on spots where battles were fought against the Danes.].

Dearworth :: Dearworth (a.) Precious.

Derworth :: Derworth (a.) Precious.

Disworth :: Disworth (v. t.) To deprive of worth; to degrade.

Dropwort :: Dropwort (n.) An Old World species of Spiraea (S. filipendula), with finely cut leaves..

Elderwort :: Elderwort (n.) Danewort.

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