thrumwort

English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) The second component is wort.

Noun

thrumwort (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) A species of flowering marsh plant, Damasonium alisma.
  2. A kind of amaranth (Amaranthus caudatus).[1]

References
  1. 1863-1879, Richard Chandler Alexander Prior, On the Popular Names of British Plants
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