birth·wort (bûrth
wûrt
, -wôrt
)
n.Any of several herbs or woody vines of the genus
Aristolochia having showy, malodorous, purplish-brown to yellowish flowers with peculiar or unusual shapes. The European species
A. clematitis was used as a folk medicine to aid childbirth.
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