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🌱 A small plant 🥗 A salad herb
pennywort

pennywort

8.1
A tropical Asian herb with rounded leaves that people eat in salads and use in traditional medicine
  • noun
  • Indian
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  • She added chopped pennywort to the salad for a fresh, herbal flavor.

Examples

  • In traditional medicine, pennywort is believed to have healing properties.

  • I added fresh pennywort to my salad.

  • Farmers in Southeast Asia often grow pennywort for use in local dishes and drinks.

  • Wow! This pennywort salad is delicious!

  • A refreshing salad was made with pennywort, adding a unique flavor and crunch.

  • In traditional medicine, pennywort is often used to treat skin ailments and improve health.

  • The chef garnished the dish with fresh pennywort leaves for extra color and taste.

How Edible

pennywort
  • Indian
8.1
herb
118 1.0

Surface Forms

pennywort singular
pennyworts plural

Morphology

pennywort = penny + wort (semi-transparent) = penny + wort

Formed from 'penny' + 'wort'; the compound signals a plant with coin-like leaves but relies on knowledge of the botanical element 'wort'.

Etymology

Pennywort comes from penny ('small coin') and wort ('plant' or 'herb'), because the herb's round leaves look like coins. That's why this tropical plant with coin-shaped leaves is used as a salad green and in traditional medicine.