Whit·low-wort n. Bot. Same as Whitlow grass, under Whitlow.
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whitlowwort
n : any of various low-growing tufted plants of the genus
Paronychia having tiny greenish flowers and usually
whorled leaves; widespread throughout warm regions of
both Old and New Worlds; formerly thought to cure
whitlows (suppurative infections around a fingernail)