Moneywort

//ˈmʌnɪwəːt// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A prostrate perennial of species, Lysimachia nummularia, native to Europe, having yellow flowers.

    "Moneywort is singular good to stay all fluxes in man or woman, whether they be lasks, bloody fluxes, the flowing of women's courses, bleedings inwardly or outwardly, and the weakness of the stomach that is given to casting."

  2. 2
    a loosestrife vine wordnet
  3. 3
    Any plant of genus Alysicarpus, of Old World tropics and subtropics.
  4. 4
    coastal waterhyssop, Indian pennywort (Bacopa monnieri).

Synonyms

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creeping charliecreeping jennycreeping jenny, creeping charlie, herb twopencelysimachia nummularia

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"Moneywort is singular good to stay all fluxes in man or woman, whether they be lasks, bloody fluxes, the flowing of women's courses, bleedings inwardly or outwardly, and the weakness of the stomach that is given to casting."

Etymology

From money + wort.

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creeping charliecreeping jenny

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