A plant, typically a type of herb or flowering plant associated with or named after dames or women.
From dame combined with wort (Old English for plant or herb); compound name reflecting medieval naming conventions for plants.
Medieval people named plants after important people or their uses—'damewort' probably means a plant that women cultivated or used, revealing what plants were considered 'women's knowledge'!
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