What does "toothwort" mean?

Any of several species of flowering plants of the genus Lathraea.

Toothwort

Common synonyms include: allegheny toothwort, cardamine diphylla, coralwort, crinkle root, crinkle-root, crinkleroot.

noun

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Noun

1
Any of several species of flowering plants of the genus Lathraea.
2
North American herb with pungent scaly or toothed roots wordnet
3
Any of the species of plants in subgenus Cardamine subg. Dentaria, formerly genus Dentaria.

From tooth + wort. From having an appearance similar to teeth.