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Leadwort vs Meadwort - What's the difference?

leadwort | meadwort |

As nouns the difference between leadwort and meadwort

is that leadwort is any of various maritime herbs of the genus Plumbago, some of which have lead-coloured spots on the leaves or nearly lead-coloured flowers while meadwort is meadowsweet, a plant found near rivers or on damp ground.

leadwort

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Noun

(en noun)
  • (botany) Any of various maritime herbs of the genus Plumbago , some of which have lead-coloured spots on the leaves or nearly lead-coloured flowers.
    • (Webster 1913)

    meadwort

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    Noun

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  • (obsolete) Meadowsweet, a plant found near rivers or on damp ground.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
    • The metall first he mixt with Medæwart , / That no enchauntment from his dint might saue; / That it in flames of Aetna wrought apart, / And seuen times dipped in the bitter waue / Of hellish Styx, which hidden vertue to it gaue.

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