SPEARWORT


Meaning of SPEARWORT in English

/spear"werrt', -wawrt'/ , n.

any of several buttercups having lance-shaped leaves and small flowers, as Ranunculus ambigens, of the eastern U.S., growing in mud.

[ bef. 1000; ME sperewort, OE sperewyrt. See SPEAR 1 , WORT 2 ]

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