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nounlow-growing annual or perennial herbs or woody plants; whitlowworts
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nouninfection in the tissues adjacent to a nail on a finger or toetype of:
Definition that contains paronychia
- whitlowwort 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)