wort
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
wort /wəːt/
▶noun
- 1 [in combination] used in names of plants and herbs, especially those used formerly as food or medicinally, e.g. butterwort.
■ archaic such a plant or herb.
- 2 the sweet infusion of ground malt or other grain before fermentation, used to produce beer and distilled malt liquors.
'wort' also found in these Oxford entries:
collard
- felwort
- figwort
- honewort
- hypericin
- liverwort
- mash
- mugwort
- original gravity
- root
- St John's wort
- saw-wort
- squinancywort
- tutsan
