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miltwastes

miltwastes is the plural of miltwaste.

Meaning of miltwaste

Noun

miltwaste (plural miltwastes)

  1. (archaic) Any of species (Asplenium ceterach) of small European ferns formerly used in medicine.
    • a species which is now rather inconsistently made the type of a genus bearing this last name of "Ceterach," while another set of plants, in no respect resembling a spleen, are called Spleenworts, and Miltwastes.1863, Richard Chandler Alexander Prior, On the Popular Names of British Plants, Being an Explanation of the Origin and Meaning of the Names of Our Indigenous and Most Commonly Cultivated Species...

Questions about miltwastes

What is miltwastes the plural of?
Miltwastes is the plural of miltwaste.

Words near miltwastes in the dictionary

  1. Miltowns
  2. milts
  3. miltsick
  4. miltsiekte
  5. miltwaste
  6. miltwastes
  7. miltwort
  8. milty
  9. miltz
  10. milu
  11. milus

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