lousewort

English

Etymology

From louse +‎ wort.

Noun

lousewort (plural louseworts)

1. Any of very many semiparasitic flowering plants, of the genus Pedicularis, related to wood betony.

Hyponyms

• red rattle

Derived terms

• beaked lousewort
• brown lousewort
• common lousewort (Pedicularis sylvatica)
• leafy lousewort (Pedicularis foliosa)
• red lousewort
• tuberous lousewort (Pedicularis tuberosa)
• white lousewort
• whorled lousewort (Pedicularis verticillata)
• yellow lousewort

Translations

plant of the genus Pedicularis

• Bulgarian: пропадниче n (propadniče)
• Czech: všivec m
• Dutch: kartelblad (nl) n
• Finnish: kuusio (fi)
• German: Läusekraut n
• Irish: lus an ghiolla m
• Kazakh: қандыгүл (qandygül)
• Ottoman Turkish: بت اوتی (bit odu)
• Polish: gnidosz m
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: wšowica f

• Welsh: melog m

References

• “lousewort”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• lousewort on Wikipedia.Wikipedia