whitlowwort

Noun whitlowwort has 1 sense

• whitlowwort(n = noun.plant) - 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);
is a member of genus paronychia, paronychia
is a kind of ground cover, groundcover