setterwort Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun digitate-leaved hellebore with an offensive odor and irritant qualities when taken internally
bear's foot; stinking hellebore; Helleborus foetidus.

WordNet

Set"ter*wort` noun

Definitions

(Bot.) The bear's-foot (Helleborus f&oe;tidus); -- so called because the root was used in settering, or inserting setons into the dewlaps of cattle. Called also pegroots. Dr. Prior.

Webster 1913

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