gromwell Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun European perennial branching plant; occurs in hedgerows and at the edge of woodlands
    Lithospermum officinale.

WordNet

Grom"well noun
Etymology
Called also gromel, grommel, graymill, and gray millet, all prob. fr. F. gr?mil, cf. W. cromandi.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Lithospermum (L. arvense), anciently used, because of its stony pericarp, in the cure of gravel. The German gromwell is the Stellera. Written also gromill.

Webster 1913