lungwort
English
Etymology
- Having an appearance reminiscent of lungs
- Having been used as a treatment for respiratory ailments
Noun
lungwort (plural lungworts)
- Any of various European plants, of the genus Pulmonaria (family Boraginaceae), that were once used to treat respiratory disorders.
- Any of several other, unrelated plants, used to treat respiratory disorders
- Hieracium murorum (in family Asteraceae, French lungwort or golden lungwort)
- Helleborus niger (family Ranunculaceae, black lungwort)
- Mertensia (family Boraginaceae)
- Verbascum thapsus (in family Scrophulariaceae, bullock's lungwort, cow's lungwort or clown's lungwort)
- Lobaria pulmonaria, syn. Stichta pulmonacea, (in family Lobariaceae, lungwort lichen, lung lichen, tree lungwort)
Derived terms
- American lungwort (Mertensia virginica)
- black lungwort (Helleborus niger)
- Bethlehem lungwort (Pulonaria saccharata)
- blue lungwort (Pulmonaria angustifolia)
- bullock's lungwort (Verbascum thapsus)
- clown's lungwort (Verbascum thapsus)
- common lungwort (Pulmonaria officinalis)
- cow's lungwort (Verbascum thapsus)
- French lungwort (Hieracium murorum)
- golden lungwort (Hieracium murorum)
- lanceleaf lungwort (Mertensia lanceolata)
- longleaf lungwort (Pulmonaria longifolia)
- lungwort lichen (Lobaria pulmonaria)
- lungwort oysterleaf (Mertensia virginica)
- narrowleaf lungwort (Pulmonaria angustifolia)
- Oregon lungwort (Lobaria oregana, Mertensia bella)
- red lungwort (Pulmonaria rubra)
- sea lungwort (Mertensia maritima)
- smooth lungwort (Lobaria quercizans, Mertensia virginica)
- Suffolk lungwort (Pulmonaria obscura)
- tall lungwort (Mertensia paniculata)
- textured lungwort (Lobaria scrobiculata)
- tree lungwort (Mertensia virginica, Sticta pulmonacea)
- unspotted lungwort (Pulmonaria obscura)
See also
- doctrine of signatures (Paracelsus); (lungwort being a treatment for lung ailments, and having the appearance like lungs)
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