wartwort Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun not unattractive European weed whose flowers turn toward the sun
    Euphorbia helioscopia; wartweed; devil's milk; sun spurge.

WordNet


Wart"wort` noun
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A name given to several plants because they were thought to be a cure for warts, as a kind of spurge (Euphorbia Helioscopia), and the nipplewort (Lampsana communis).

Webster 1913