Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See pennywort.
- n. Any of various Eurasian plants of the genus Omphalodes, having one-sided cymes of usually blue flowers.
- n. See water pennywort.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A plant of the genus Cotyledon, chiefly C. Umbilicus: so called from the shape of the leaf. See Cotyledon, 2, jack-in-the-bush, 2, and kidneywort, 1.
- n. A plant of the genus Omphalodes: so called from the form of nutlets. O. verna is the blue or spring navelwort, O. linifolia the white navelwort; both are garden-flowers.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A European perennial succulent herb (Cotyledon umbilicus), having round, peltate leaves with a central depression; -- also called
pennywort , andkidneywort .
Etymologies
- navel + wort (Wiktionary)
- From the navellike depression on its leaves. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“– In the north, scurvy-grass, navelwort and primroses.”
“Gr. kotyledon a cup-shaped hollow, navelwort, fr. kotyle Cf. Cotula) 1.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘navelwort’.
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Ponderable Plant Names
List of plant names (common or scientific) that go trippingly off the tongue, are fun to contemplate, expose the wit of the namer, or just plain befuddle.
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Worts and all
I have in mind the worts associated with a green thumb rather than a green beer - but as you can see by the name, I'll accept anything you have to offer.
butterwort, spiderwort, quillwort, woundwort, nipplewort, bellwort, liverwort, milkwort, water pennywort, navelwort, toothwort, wort and 128 more...
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The Worts
Maybe I'm just hallucinating that there isn't a list for this botanical category yet...
mugwort, starwort, stitchwort, woundwort, pondwort, sweetwort, liverwort, spleenwort, toothwort, lungwort, adderwort, worrywort and 9 more...
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