madwort noun. ['madwǝ:t] L16.
[App. from MAD adjective + WORT noun¹, translating mod. Latin ALYSSUM.]
Orig., any of several plants said to cure the bites of mad dogs, esp. the crucifer Alyssum alyssoides. Now (more fully German madwort), a hispid procumbent blue-flowered plant of the borage family, Asperugo procumbens, found as an alien in Britain.

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