frostwort

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frostwort - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Frostwort \Frost`wort"\, n. (Bot.)
     Same as Frostweed.
     [1913 Webster]

frostwort - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  frostwort
      n 1: perennial of the eastern United States having early
           solitary yellow flowers followed by late petalless flowers;
           so-called because ice crystals form on it during first
           frosts [syn: frostweed, frost-weed, frostwort,
           Helianthemum canadense, Crocanthemum canadense]