Wartwort

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Wartwort has 1 sense

wartwort(n = noun.plant) devil's milk, euphorbia helioscopia, sun spurge, wartweed - not unattractive European weed whose flowers turn toward the sun;

is a member of euphorbia, genus euphorbia

is a kind of spurge

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Wartwort, n.

A name given to several plants because they were thought to be a cure for warts, as a kind of spurge (Euphorbia Helioscopia), and the nipplewort (Lampsana communis). [1913 Webster]