Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun whitlowwort

1 sense of whitlowwort

Sense 1
whitlowwort -- (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))
       => groundcover, ground cover -- (low-growing plants planted in deep shade or on a steep slope where turf is difficult to grow)