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lousewort(encyclopedia)

pother (iou) and lousewort (sh)


pother (iou)



pother noun & verb. . L16.
[Origin uncertain: perh. rel. to BOTHER.]
A. noun.
Disturbance, commotion, turmoil; an uproar, a din; a fuss; mental disturbance or turmoil. L16.
F. T. Bullen Smiting the sea with his mighty tail, making an almost deafening noise and pother. V. Woolf All this pother about a brooch really didn't do at all. P. Ziegler The Home Fleet was in a pother about Mountbatten's activities.
A choking atmosphere of dust. Now dial. E17.
b. verb.
verb trans. Disturb, fluster, worry, trouble. L17.
verb intrans. Make a fuss; fuss, worry. E18.
verb intrans. Of smoke or dust: move or gather in a cloud. dial. M19.
pothery adjective choking, stifling; close, sultry: L17.

lousewort (sh)




Any of about 500 species of herbaceous plants that make up the genus Pedicularis in the snapdragon family.

The lousewort is found throughout the Northern Hemisphere but especially on the mountains of central and eastern Asia. The bilaterally symmetrical flowers sometimes have very unusual shapes. The flowers of the little elephant (P. groenlandica), for example, resemble the head, trunk, and ears of an elephant. Louseworts are semiparasitic on the roots of Other plants.


Lousewort (Pedicularis lanceolata)

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