noun
- a parasitic plant of the figwort family with colorful flowers, found in northern regions
Usage: botanical
Examples
- The bright red lousewort flowers dotted the alpine meadow.
- Botanists identified several species of lousewort growing in the tundra.
- The lousewort’s unusual name comes from an old belief that it caused lice in livestock.
- Arctic lousewort blooms briefly during the short summer season.
- The hiker photographed the distinctive yellow lousewort along the mountain trail.