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felwort

felwort

9.9
A European and Asian plant with creamy white fringed flowers
  • noun
  • UK
: felwort
  • The meadow was dotted with felwort, its white fringed flowers catching the morning sun.

Examples

  • Botanists recorded several felwort plants along the riverbank in early summer.

  • Many gardeners appreciate the felwort for its unique flowers.

  • Felwort thrives in damp meadows across parts of Europe and Asia.

  • The felwort blooms beautifully in the spring.

  • The meadow was dotted with felwort, its white fringed flowers catching the morning sun.

  • Felwort thrives in damp meadows across parts of Europe and Asia.

  • Many gardeners appreciate the felwort for its unique flowers.

Compounds

marsh felwort
  • UK
9.9

A plant that lives many years in wet mountain places with blue or violet flowers

Surface Forms

felwort singular
felworts plural

Morphology

felwort = wort (opaque) = fel + wort

Historically a compound (fel + wort), but 'fel' is not a recognizable modern morpheme and '-wort' is archaic, so the structure and meaning are not clear to average learners.

Etymology

Felwort ends with -wort, an old English part meaning 'plant' or 'herb', the same part you see in liverwort. A helpful way to remember felwort is to think of it as 'fel' + 'wort' — 'wort' means 'plant', so felwort is simply the plant called 'fel', which fits because it is a small gentian with creamy white, fringed flowers.