A plant believed to cause or cure blisters, using the suffix 'wort' (which means plant or herb); often a folk or historical name for medicinal plants.
Compound of 'blister' plus 'wort' (from Old English 'wyrt,' meaning plant or herb, used in herbal medicine names like 'mugwort').
'Wort' is why we still call some plants St. John's Wort and mugwort—it's an ancient suffix that makes any plant sound like an old apothecary bottle full of mysterious cures.
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