Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The elecampane, Inula Helenium.

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

  • noun (Bot.) Elecampane.

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  • noun The plant elecampane.

Etymologies

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scab +‎ wort

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Examples

  • And beyond, standing on the reddish benches, among the long grasses and the November scabwort, his little friend, whom

    Ramuntcho Pierre Loti 1886

  • -- He threw it at random, this time, anywhere, on the granite of the old benches flowered with belated scabwort --

    Ramuntcho Pierre Loti 1886

  • On the two sides are extended, for the spectators, long benches -- made of the red granite of the neighboring mountain and, at this moment, all overgrown with autumn scabwort.

    Ramuntcho Pierre Loti 1886

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