whitlow-wort

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun See Paronychia, 2 (with cut).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Bot.) Same as Whitlow grass, under whitlow.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun any of various low-growing tufted plants of the genus Paronychia having tiny greenish flowers and usually whorled leaves; widespread throughout warm regions of both Old and New Worlds; formerly thought to cure whitlows (suppurative infections around a fingernail)