noun
comfrey
• Syn: ↑genus Symphytum
• Hypernyms: ↑plant genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Boraginaceae, ↑family Boraginaceae, ↑borage family
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\\ˈsim(p)fəd.əm\ nounUsage: capitalized
: 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.