noun
- a North American plant of the composite family with white or purplish flowers, formerly used in herbal medicine
Usage: botanical
Examples
- The herbalist gathered thoroughwort from the meadow for making tea.
- Thoroughwort was commonly used by Native Americans for treating fevers.
- The white flowers of thoroughwort bloom in late summer.
- Early settlers learned about thoroughwort’s medicinal properties from indigenous peoples.
- Thoroughwort grows wild in moist areas throughout eastern North America.