navelwort. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

navelwort

SYLLABICATION:	na·vel·wort
PRONUNCIATION:	nvl-wûrt, -wôrt
NOUN:	1. See pennywort (sense 1a). 2. Any of various Eurasian plants of the genus Omphalodes, having one-sided cymes of usually blue flowers. 3. See water pennywort.
ETYMOLOGY:	From the navellike depression on its leaves.


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