A name of the Water-Betony (Scrophularia aquatica), and perhaps other species of Scrophularia.

= scrophularia, n.

= water figwort n.

Water Figwort (Scrophularia aquatica).

The name of certain plants reputed to cure the ‘fig’. The genus Scrophularia, esp. S. aquatica and S. nodosa.

the figwort, Scrophularia nodosa.

Any of several other plants formerly regarded as remedies for haemorrhoids; esp. a figwort (genus Scrophularia). Usually with distinguishing…

A genus of monopetalous plants (the fig-worts), typical of the N.O. Scrophulariaceæ; a plant of this genus.

any of several figworts (genus Scrophularia) that grow in moist soil or near water, esp. S. auriculata; also called water betony.

British regional and Irish English. Any of several figworts (genus Scrophularia); esp. the common figwort, S. nodosa.

U.S. = snake-head, n.1 1.

A plant of the tribe Salpiglossideæ (typical genus Salpiglossis: see salpiglossis, n.), one of Bentham's divisions of the order Scrophulariaceæ.

Chelone glabra, which is supposed to be a remedy for herpes.

a North American scrophulariaceous plant, Chelone glabra, allied to Pentstemon, so called from the shape of the flower.

a plant of this order.

(a) the Citharexylon; (b) (see quot. 1878 –86).

any of several figworts; esp. the common figwort, Scrophularia nodosa; cf. stinkwort n. at stink, n. compounds.

a plant of the genus Scrophularia.