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spearwort

[ speer-wurt, -wawrt ]

noun

  1. any of several buttercups having lance-shaped leaves and small flowers, as Ranunculus ambigens, of the eastern U.S., growing in mud.


spearwort

/ ˈ²õ±èɪəˌ·Éɜ˳٠/

noun

  1. any of several Eurasian ranunculaceous plants of the genus Ranunculus, such as R. flammula ( lesser spearwort ) and R. lingua ( great spearwort ), which grow in wet places and have long narrow leaves and yellow flowers See also buttercup
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of spearwort1

before 1000; Middle English sperewort, Old English sperewyrt. See spear 1, wort 2
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The adder's-tongue spearwort is only found in two places in the UK - Badgeworth, near Gloucester, and on Inglestone Common, near Bristol.

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And Miss Anney, turning the bouquet about and examining it, said: "An apple-blossom is in the middle,--the good-for-nothing girl plucked it from some little tree, for which she must be reprimanded; these are spearwort, those primroses, and those pennyroyal, which are now coming out."

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Yea, more dreadful still, Buried within the heart of many a plant Lie deadly drops of poisonous essences, Nightshade and spearwort, aconite and poppy, That slay more swift and sure than tempered steel.

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The following purely Caucasian species also grow on the coast—five species of spearwort, three of saxifrage, Aster caucasica, Dioscorea caucasica, Echinops raddeanus, Hedera colchica, Helleborus caucasica and Peucedanum caucasicum.

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Stems prostrate and trailing, rooting at the joints; fruits tipped with a minute short beak Spearwort, Ranunculus flammula var. reptans. 12a.

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