Hypericum
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- 1 Any of many flowering plants of the genus Hypericum, St. John's worts.
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From the genus name, translingual Hypericum, itself from Latin hypericum, from Ancient Greek ὑπερικόν (huperikón), from ὑπέρ (hupér, “over”) + ἐρείκη (ereíkē, “heath”).
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