thrumwortn.
/ˈθrʌmwəːt/ A name for different plants having parts resembling thrums:
a. The water-plantain, Alisma Plantago (or other species); also the allied star-fruit Actinocarpus Damasonium.
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1829 S. Glover Hist. County of Derby I. 112 Alisma ranunculoides, lesser thrum wort... Alisma lanceolata, narrow-leaved thrum wort.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1147 Thrumwort, Actinocarpus.
1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Thrum-wort, a book-name for Actinocarpus Damasonium... Thrum-wort, Great, Alisma Plantago.
b. ‘Love-lies-bleeding’, Amarantus caudatus.
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1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1147 Thrumwort, also Amaranthus caudatus.
1879 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants (ed. 3) Thrum-wort... The plant has its name from its long tassel-like panicles of red flowers, the florimer, Amarantus caudatus.
1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Thrum-wort, Amaranthus caudatus.
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