stitchwort
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of stitchwort
1225–75; Middle English stichewort, Old English sticwyrt agrimony. See stitch, wort 2
Example Sentences
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The sky was blue, the hedges were budding with pure light-green above, and resplendent with rosy campion and white spangles of stitchwort below.
From Magnum Bonum by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
Six kinds of clovers and vetches; and besides, dandelion, and rattle, and oxeye, and sorrel, and plantain, and buttercup, and a little stitchwort, and pignut, and mouse-ear hawkweed, too, which nobody wants.
From Madam How and Lady Why by Kingsley, Charles
Its name, stitchwort, no doubt alludes to the plant's supposed virtue in cases of "stitches" in the side.
From Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children by Houghton, W. (William)
Later on in the season you will find myriads of its smaller relative, the lesser stitchwort.
From One Maid's Mischief by Fenn, George Manville
And then again they struck into a by-lane with tall hedges, the banks underneath which were bright with stitchwort and speedwell and white dead-nettle.
From Prince Fortunatus by Black, William
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