whitlowwort

1. 1.

   any of various low-growing tufted plants of the genus Paronychia having tiny greenish flowers and usually whorled leaves; widespread throughout warm regions of both Old and New Worlds; formerly thought to cure whitlows (suppurative infections around a fingernail)

   Broadergroundcover

   Part ofParonychia

Other forms of whitlowwort

plural

whitlowworts·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about whitlowwort

What does whitlowwort mean?

whitlowwort means "any of various low-growing tufted plants of the genus Paronychia having tiny greenish flowers and usually whorled leaves; widespread throughout warm regions of both Old and New Worlds; formerly thought to cure whitlows (suppurative infections around a fingernail)".

How many syllables are in whitlowwort?

whitlowwort has 3 syllables: whit-low-wort. The stress falls on "whit".

Is whitlowwort a common word?

whitlowwort 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.