comfrey

English

From Middle English cumfiria, from Latin (herba) cōnfirma in Pseudo-Apuleius, also called cōnsolida, cōnserva, cōnferva, from conferveo (“to boil together”); from the use of the plant in tea to aid in healing bones.

comfrey (countable and uncountable, plural comfreys)

Any of several species of perennial herbs of the genus Symphytum, often specifically Symphytum officinale.
- 2007 April 25, Kim Severson, “Farmer, Cookie Maker, Ecologist and, Yes, the Future King”, in New York Times‎^[1]:
  It thrives on compost and natural fertilizers brewed from comfrey or seaweed and uses only rain, natural groundwater or wastewater purified through a system of reed beds.

perennial herb

Arabic: سِنْفِيتُون m (sinfītūn)
Belarusian: жывако́ст m (žyvakóst)
Bulgarian: че́рен ома́н m (čéren omán), зара́сличе n (zarásliče)
Catalan: consolda f
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Dutch: smeerwortel (nl) m
Finnish: raunioyrtti (fi) (Symphytum), rohtoraunioyrtti (fi) (Symphytum officinale)
French: consoude (fr) f
Galician: consolda f
Georgian: ლაშქარა (laškara)
German: Beinwell (de) m
Greek: σύμφυτο (el) n (sýmfyto), στεκούλι n (stekoúli)
Ancient: σύμφυτον n (súmphuton)
Hebrew: סינפיטון m (sinfitón)
Hungarian: nadálytő (hu)
Irish: meacan compair m, lus na gcnámh briste m
Italian: consolida (it) f
Kazakh: майтамыр (maitamyr)
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Latin: ālum n
Macedonian: га́вез m (gávez)
Polish: żywokost (pl) m
Portuguese: consolda (pt) f, consólida f, confrei m
Romanian: tătăneasă (ro) f
Russian: око́пник (ru) m (okópnik), костоло́мка (ru) f (kostolómka)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: га̏ве̄з m

Latin: gȁvēz (sh) m
Slovak: kostihoj m
Slovene: gȃbez m
Spanish: consuelda (es) f
Swedish: vallört (sv) c
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Ukrainian: живокі́ст m (žyvokíst)
Uzbek: please add this translation if you can
Vilamovian: bǡnwał m
Welsh: cyfardwf f