See Also: masterwort(medicine)
masterwort(dictionary)

masterwort (iou)



masterwort noun. M16.
[from MASTER noun1 & adjective + WORT noun1.]
Any of various umbellifers used as pot-herbs or medicinally; spec. (a) any of the genus Astrantia, comprising perennial plants of woods and damp meadows in Europe and western Asia; (b) Peucedanum ostruthium, a perennial native to southern Europe and naturalized in moist places elsewhere.