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nipplewort
[ nip-uhl-wurt, -wawrt ]
noun
- a yellow-flowered plant, Lapsana communis, found in woods and on wasteland.
nipplewort
/ ˈnɪpəlˌwɜːt /
noun
- an annual Eurasian plant, Lapsana communis, with pointed oval leaves and small yellow flower heads: family Asteraceae (composites)
Word History and Origins
Origin of nipplewort1
Example Sentences
Just within a couple of yards of the water’s edge, the species are abundant, the nomenclature mellifluous: buttercup, foxglove, leopard’s bane, nipplewort, forget-me-not, large-leaf aven, fringe cup, sticky willy.
“One imagines someone waking up in the middle of the night, putting on their dressing gown and then bending over in the garden and smelling the nipplewort and then saying, ‘Wow, it’s late.’
Some, like “liverwort,” “bloodroot,” “rattlesnake plantain” or even “nipplewort,” leave little to the imagination.
My dear child," said John, "when you were an infant-in-arms, nay, before you existed at all, it was my custom to ramble o'er the dewy meads, plucking the nimble Nipplewort and the shy Speedwell.
Nipplewort - - - Lapsana communis.
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