ˈironwort
(-wɜːt)
[f. iron n. + wort, tr. L. sidērītis (Pliny), a. Gr. σιδηρῖτις, name of a herb having the reputed power of healing sword-wounds, f. σίδηρος iron.]
Name for plants of the genus Sideritis (N.O. Labiatæ); also applied to some other labiates, as species of Galeopsis.
| 1562 Turner Herbal ii. 135 b, Thys kinde [of Sideritis] is called in Duche Glitkraut, it may be called in English Yronwurt or Rock sage. 1682 Grew Anat. Flowers App. §11 The Top is..Poynted, or at least, Roundish, as in Lamium, Ironwort. 1866 Treas. Bot., Ironwort, Sideritis; also Galeopsis Ladanum. Yellow I., Galeopsis villosa. |