Usually means: Plant used for treating hemorrhoids.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word pilewort:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. pilewort: Merriam-Webster
  2. pilewort: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pilewort: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pilewort: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pilewort: Vocabulary.com
  6. pilewort: Wordnik
  7. pilewort: Wiktionary
  8. pilewort: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. pilewort: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Pilewort, pilewort: Dictionary.com
  11. Pilewort: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Pilewort: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. pilewort: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. pilewort: Rhymezone
  15. Pilewort: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. pilewort: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. pilewort: FreeDictionary.org
  18. pilewort: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. pilewort: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pilewort: Botanical Name listing of Plants
  2. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)
  3. Garden Flower, Shrub and Tree Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pilewort)

noun:  Any of various not closely related plants traditionally supposed to be effective in treating piles (hemorrhoids), especially
noun:  Erechtites hieraciifolius, or fireweed, a plant in the aster family;
noun:  Ficaria verna (formerly Ranunculus ficaria), lesser celandine, a plant in the buttercup family.

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