ragwort
English
editEtymology
editFrom rag (“referring to the ragged leaves”) + wort.
Pronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɹæɡwəːt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editragwort (countable and uncountable, plural ragworts)
- Any of a number of wild flowering plants with yellow flowers in the family Asteraceae, mostly belonging to Senecio and related genera.
- 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 237:
- Ragwort is under the command of dame Venus, and cleanses, digests and discusses.
- 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 157:
- Sea-poppies and ragwort were plants of ill-fame, too.
- 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 267:
- As we all know, witches ride through the air on a broom, but sometimes their means of locomotion was a bulrush, a branch of thorn, mullein stalks, cornstalk, or ragweed, called fairies' horse in Ireland.
Derived terms
edit- broad-leaved ragwort (Senecio sarracenicus)
- Chinese ragwort (Sinacalia tangutica)
- common ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris)
- Flaggstaff ragwort (Senecio actinella)
- golden ragwort (Packera aurea)
- marsh ragwort (Jacobaea aquatica)
- Mojave ragwort (Senecio mohavensis)
- Mono ragwort (Senecio pattersonensis)
- Monro's ragwort (Brachyglottis monroi)
- Musinea ragwort (Packera musiniensis)
- narrow-leaved ragwort (Senecio inaequidens)
- nodding ragwort (Senecio bigelovii)
- Oxford ragwort (Senecio squalidus)
- pink ragwort (Senecio glastifolius)
- Podunk ragwort (Packera malmstenii)
- purple ragwort, redpurple ragwort (Senecio elegans)
- sea ragwort (Jacobaea maritima)
- South African ragwort (Senecio inaequidens)
- tansy ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris)
- water ragwort (Jacobaea aquatica)
- woad-leaved ragwort (Senecio glastifolius)
- woolly ragwort (Packera tomentosa, Senecio garlandii, S. littoralis)
Translations
editplant of the genus Senecio
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Further reading
edit- Ragwort (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “ragwort”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.