culver's physic

1. 1.

   a tall perennial herb having spikes of small white or purple flowers; common in eastern North America

   SynonymsCulver's rootCulvers rootCulvers physicwhorlywortVeronicastrum virginicum

   Broaderasterid dicot genus

   Part ofScrophulariaceae

Questions about culver's physic

What does culver's physic mean?

culver's physic means "a tall perennial herb having spikes of small white or purple flowers; common in eastern North America".

What is another word for culver's physic?

Close synonyms include Culver's root, Culvers root, Culvers physic, whorlywort, Veronicastrum virginicum. 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 culver's physic a common word?

culver's physic 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.