fleawort
IPA: fɫˈiwɔrt
noun
- Any of various not closely related plants that are supposed to kill or ward off fleas.
- lady's bedstraw (Galium verum).
- A herb, Plantago psyllium, whose seeds are supposed to resemble fleas.
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Examples of "fleawort" in Sentences
- She put divers herbs in it, herbs yielding coloured juices such as safflower and alkanet, and soapwort and fleawort to give consistency or 'body' to the lye; she put in alum and blue vitriol (or sulphate of copper), and she put in blood.
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