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figwort
[ fig-wurt, -wawrt ]
noun
- any of numerous tall, usually coarse woodland plants of the genus Scrophularia, having a terminal cluster of small greenish-brown to purplish-brown flowers.
figwort
/ ˈɪɡˌɜː /
noun
- any scrophulariaceous plant of the N temperate genus Scrophularia , having square stems and small brown or greenish flowers
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He paddled across awkwardly, his head tilted high out of the water, and made for the figwort.
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Who shall any longer refer to the figwort as an "uninteresting weed"?
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The tall stems of the Californian figwort are common along roadsides, and become especially rank and luxuriant where the soil has been freshly stirred.
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The mother butterflies select as food plants for the larvae various members of either the plantain or figwort families.
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Certain families, as ferns and orchids, go well together; mints and figworts are allied.
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