coralwort

English

A coralwort (Cardamine trifolia). Broek in Waterland, Netherlands.

Etymology

From coral +‎ wort.

Noun

coralwort (usually uncountable, plural coralworts)

1. A parasitic plant of certain species of genus Lathraea (family Orobanchaceae).
2. Any plant now classified in the subgenus Cardamine subg. Dentaria (family Brassicaceae), formerly genus Dentaria.

Synonyms

• pepper root, tooth violet, toothwort

References

• coralwort on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “coralwort”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “coralwort”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.