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Symphytum

noun

comfrey

• Syn: ↑genus Symphytum

• Hypernyms: ↑plant genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Boraginaceae, ↑family Boraginaceae, ↑borage family

• Member Meronyms: ↑comfrey, ↑cumfrey

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\\ˈsim(p)fəd.əm\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Greek symphyton, neuter of symphytos grown together

: a genus of Old World perennial herbs (family Boraginaceae) having coarse hairy entire leaves, yellow, blue, or purple flowers in one-sided racemes, and four obliquely ovoid nutlets — see comfrey

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Symˈphytum noun

The comfrey genus of the borage family, perh from its supposed virtue of closing wounds or healing fractures

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Main Entry: ↑symphysis

Useful english dictionary. 2012.