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nounany 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)type of:
Definition that contains whitlowwort
- genus paronychia low-growing annual or perennial herbs or woody plants; whitlowworts
- paronychia low-growing annual or perennial herbs or woody plants; whitlowworts