Toothwort

Word TOOTHWORT
Character 9
Hyphenation tooth wort
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Toothwort"

What do we mean by toothwort?

Any of several eastern North American plants of the genus Cardamine of the mustard family, such as crinkleroot, having fibrous or fleshy rhizomes and palmately divided leaves. noun

A Eurasian plant (Lathraea squamata) of the figwort family, having scaly cream-colored or pink stems and pinkish flowers. noun

A plant, Lathræa squamaria, so named from the tooth-like scales on the rootstock and the base of the stem, or according to some from the capsules, which when half-ripe strongly simulate human teeth. Also called clown's lungwort. noun

A plant of the genus Dentaria: same as coralwort, 1. noun

See Plumbago, 2. noun

The shepherd's-purse, Capsella Bursapastoris: an old use. noun

A plant whose roots are fancied to resemble teeth, as certain plants of the genus Lathræa, and various species of Dentaria. See coralwort. noun

Any of several species of flowering plants, of the genus Lathraea. noun

North American herb with pungent scaly or toothed roots noun

Any of several species of flowering plants, of the genus Lathraea.

Any of several species of plants in the former genus Dentaria (now considered part of the genus Cardamine).

The worse tooth. Usually used as a synonym of "not the sharpest tool in the shed," this came to be when someone used the word 'tooth', then 'worse' and fumbled it up. Urban Dictionary

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The word "toothwort" in example sentences

Hawk and I would push our way into the bush, plucking berries, digging up edible roots such as Indian potatoes and toothwort, pinching the heads from puffball mushrooms, stripping bark from hickory trees, which we boiled, to soften it. ❋ William James Henry (2010)

He put the new bag among the others, taking time to consider the collection: toothwort, columbine, bloodroot. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Cut leaf toothwort is out, in the Central Ohio rain. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

Leafless herbs like beechdrops, lavender toothwort, and various bright-flowered small orchids, often without green leaves, were everywhere, growing from the roots of other living plants or their decaying remains. ❋ Auel, Jean M. (1990)

The toothwort (_dentaria laciniata_) is sometimes known as the pepper-root, and every school boy and girl living near the woods is familiar with the taste of its tubers and the appearance of its cross-shaped flowers. ❋ Frederick John Lazell (1905)

Pink: -- Spring beauty, toothwort, dog's tooth violet, hepatica. ❋ Frederick John Lazell (1905)

But she found, among others, "Dutchman's breeches," the funny little white flower that looks like long underwear hanging upside down, and cut-leaved toothwort. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Also along the trail were my first views of early spring wildflowers, with clumps of Dutchman's breeches, cut-leaved toothwort and spring beauties. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For example, club member Francy Cash recently discovered one of spring's early flowers, toothwort, or dentaria, abloom several paces off the trail. ❋ Unknown (2009)

An Easter afternoon walk in KrisMar Woods was made more pleasant by the bluets, spring beauties, crowfoot toothwort, purple toothwort (almost through flowering), violets, gill-over-the-ground and re ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

See the forest covered in twin leave, toothwort, bluebells, trout lilies and more. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I wondered if the doctor, tipping back his head to slip the oyster into his mouth, was thinking like me of hickory bark and bitter wolf’s claw and the pungent taste of toothwort. ❋ William James Henry (2010)

I was [always] the toothwort in my [family]. ❋ InfFPS (2022)

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