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Webster 1913 Edition
Masterwort
Mas′ter-wortˊ
,Noun.
(Bot.)
(a)
A tall and coarse European umbelliferous plant (
Peucedanum Ostruthium
, formerly Imperatoria
). (b)
The
Astrantia major
, a European umbelliferous plant with a showy colored involucre. (c)
Improperly, the
cow parsnip
(Heracleum lanatum
). Definition 2024
masterwort
masterwort
English
Noun
masterwort (plural masterworts)
- Peucedanum ostruthium, an umbelliferous plant grown in gardens, formerly much used for medicinal purposes. [from 16th c.]
- 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society 2007, p. 184:
- The root of Masterwort is hotter than Pepper, and very available in all cold griefs and diseases both of stomach and body, dissolving very powerfully upward and downward.
- 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society 2007, p. 184:
- Astrantia spp., such as the great masterwort.
- The ground elder (Aegopodium podagraria).
Translations
Peucedanum ostruthium
|
Astrantia spp.
Aegopodium podagraria — see ground elder