A plant, particularly comfrey or similar herbs, traditionally used in folk medicine for healing wounds and injuries.
Compound of 'bone' + 'wort' (Old English 'wyrt,' meaning 'plant' or 'herb'). The '-wort' suffix appears in many plant names, particularly medicinal herbs traditionally believed to treat specific ailments.
'-Wort' is one of English's most revealing suffixes—it's essentially a word for plant that's been attached to herbs for 1,500 years, and you can guess what the plant supposedly treats just from the first part: bonewort (bones), bloodwort (blood), lungwort (lungs)!
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