Usually means: Perennial herb, knotweed family, medicinal.
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  1. bistort: Merriam-Webster
  2. bistort: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bistort: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bistort: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bistort: Wordnik
  6. bistort: Wiktionary
  7. bistort: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. bistort: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Bistort, bistort: Dictionary.com
  10. Bistort: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Bistort: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. bistort: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Bistort: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. bistort: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. bistort: FreeDictionary.org
  16. bistort: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. bistort: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bistort)

▸ noun:  Any of several perennial herbs, classified in genera Bistorta, Persicaria, or Polygonum, having spikes of pink flowers.

Similar:
dragon's wort, adderwort, dragonwort, common bistort, butterbur, snakeweed, burdock, snakeroot, polygonum, bugloss, more...

Phrases:
alpine bistort, more...

Adjectives:
american, alpine, amphibious, natural, viviparous, common, white, great, modern

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Similar:
dragon's wort, adderwort, dragonwort, common bistort, butterbur, snakeweed, burdock, snakeroot, polygonum, bugloss, more...

Phrases:
alpine bistort, more...

Adjectives:
american, alpine, amphibious, natural, viviparous, common, white, great, modern



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