moneywort

English

moneywort (Lysimachia nummularia) herbarium sample

Etymology

From money +‎ wort.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌnɪwəːt/

Noun

moneywort (plural moneyworts)

1. A prostrate perennial of species, Lysimachia nummularia, native to Europe, having yellow flowers.

   Synonym: creeping Jenny, creeping Charlie, herb twopence

   • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 193:

     Moneywort is singular good to stay all fluxes in man or woman, whether they be lasks, bloody fluxes, the flowing of women's courses, bleedings inwardly or outwardly, and the weakness of the stomach that is given to casting.

2. Any plant of genus Alysicarpus, of Old World tropics and subtropics.
3. coastal waterhyssop, Indian pennywort (Bacopa monnieri).

Translations

Lysimachia nummularia

• Czech: vrbina penízková
• Finnish: suikeroalpi
• French: nummulaire (fr) f
• Italian: nummolaria f
• Romanian: duminecea (ro) f, duminecuță f
• Spanish: hierba de la moneda f
• Vietnamese: cây trân châu
• Welsh: siani lusg f, dwygeinioglys m
• West Frisian: peinjekrûd

See also

• pennywort

References

• moneywort on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Alysicarpus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Alysicarpus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

• Lysimachia nummularia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Lysimachia nummularia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons