51Թ

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honeywort

[ huhn-ee-wurt, -wawrt ]

noun

  1. a plant, Cerinthe retorta, of Greece, having bluish-green leaves and purple-tipped yellow flowers.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of honeywort1

1590–1600; honey + wort 2, so called because its flowers yield much honey
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With an emphasis on diversity and flowers that dry well, she planted 20 varieties, including zinnias, statice, honeywort, sweet peas and cress, by using landscape fabric and a blowtorch to cut the fabric and prevent fraying.

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The seeds of sweet peas, honeywort, beans and poppies are child’s play to gather.

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The leaves of Honeywort are often lightly spotted, which may be one of its elements of mystery.

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Honeywort is seldom seen even in our oldest gardens; but it is a beautiful flower and a most hardy annual, and deserves to be reintroduced.

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Cerinthe or Honeywort, loved of bees.

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