swallow wort

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   perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers

   Synonymscelandinegreater celandineswallowwortChelidonium majus

   Broaderpoppy

   Part ofChelidonium

Questions about swallow wort

What does swallow wort mean?

swallow wort means "perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers".

What is another word for swallow wort?

Close synonyms include celandine, greater celandine, swallowwort, Chelidonium majus. 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 swallow wort a common word?

swallow 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.