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wood betonies

wood betonies is the plural of wood betony.

Meaning of wood betony

Noun

wood betony (usually uncountable, plural wood betonies)

  1. (usually) Any member of the species Betonica officinalis (syn. Stachys officinalis), of North Africa and temperate Europe and Asia.
  2. (usually) Any member of the species Pedicularis canadensis of perennial herb, which are partial parasites of roots and have been used in traditional medicine, found in most of North America east of the Rockies.

Questions about wood betonies

What is wood betonies the plural of?
Wood betonies is the plural of wood betony.

Words near wood betonies in the dictionary

  1. wood ants
  2. wood apple
  3. wood apples
  4. wood avens
  5. wood bedstraw
  6. wood betonies
  7. wood betony
  8. wood bison
  9. wood block
  10. wood blocks
  11. wood brown

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