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burstworts

burstworts is the plural of burstwort.

Meaning of burstwort

Noun

burstwort (usually uncountable, plural burstworts)

  1. (obsolete, usually) Rupturewort, Herniaria glabra.
    • For some ordinary broths made of Eringos or Sea-Holme, and Burstwort, which twice or thrice I have swallowed downe at the request of some Ladies, who, more kindely then my disease is unkind, offred me the moity of theirs, have equally seemed unto me as easie to take as unprofitable in operation.1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.13

Questions about burstworts

What is burstworts the plural of?
Burstworts is the plural of burstwort.

Words near burstworts in the dictionary

  1. bursts someone's bubble
  2. bursts up
  3. Burstwick
  4. burstwise
  5. burstwort
  6. burstworts
  7. bursty
  8. bursæ
  9. Burt
  10. Burt County
  11. burtah

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