thoroughwort
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of thoroughwort
Example Sentences
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Strings of dried apples are festooned from chamber windows; and paper bags of catnip and spearmint and thoroughwort and penny-royal and mullen hang drying on the garret walls.
From Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends by Fanny Fern
I did not know she was near-sighted, and had not seen me drinking her thoroughwort.
From Aunt Madge's Story by Sophie May
Mullein, motherwort, thoroughwort, golden-rod, everlasting, burdock-leaves, may-weed, must all be dried and hung up in the garret.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various
Now it is a veritable mixing pat for the autumn colors to come, yellow with goldenrod, blue with asters, purple with Joe-Pye weed, rosy because of the hardhack, and rimmed with delicate gray-white of thoroughwort.
From Old Plymouth Trails by Winthrop Packard
They are sent out to gather thoroughwort, dill, dock, and other simples, and mosses and roots for the farm 120 dyeing.
From A Northern Countryside by Rosalind Richards
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