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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Whit·low-wort n. Bot. Same as Whitlow grass, under Whitlow.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 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)