common st john's wort

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   deciduous bushy Eurasian shrub with golden yellow flowers and reddish-purple fruits from which a soothing salve is made in Spain

   SynonymstutsanHypericum androsaemum

   BroaderSt John's wort

Questions about common st john's wort

What does common st john's wort mean?

common st john's wort means "deciduous bushy Eurasian shrub with golden yellow flowers and reddish-purple fruits from which a soothing salve is made in Spain".

What is another word for common st john's wort?

Close synonyms include tutsan, Hypericum androsaemum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is common st john's wort a common word?

common st john's wort is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.