different between lungwort vs oyster

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

lung +? wort

• Having an appearance reminiscent of lungs
• Having been used as a treatment for respiratory ailments

Noun

lungwort (plural lungworts)

1. Any of various European plants, of the genus Pulmonaria (family Boraginaceae), that were once used to treat respiratory disorders.
2. Any of several other, unrelated plants, used to treat respiratory disorders
   1. Hieracium murorum (in family Asteraceae, French lungwort or golden lungwort)
   2. Helleborus niger (family Ranunculaceae, black lungwort)
   3. Mertensia (family Boraginaceae)
      1. Mertensia virginica (American lungwort, lungwort oysterleaf, smooth lungwort, tree lungwort)
      2. Mertensia maritima (sea lungwort)
   4. Verbascum thapsus (in family Scrophulariaceae, bullock's lungwort, cow's lungwort or clown's lungwort)
   5. Lobaria pulmonaria, syn. Stichta pulmonacea, (in family Lobariaceae, lungwort lichen, lung lichen, tree lungwort)

Derived terms

• American lungwort (Mertensia virginica)
• black lungwort (Helleborus niger)
• Bethlehem lungwort (Pulonaria saccharata)
• blue lungwort (Pulmonaria angustifolia)
• bullock's lungwort (Verbascum thapsus)
• clown's lungwort (Verbascum thapsus)
• common lungwort (Pulmonaria officinalis)
• cow's lungwort (Verbascum thapsus)
• French lungwort (Hieracium murorum)
• golden lungwort (Hieracium murorum)
• lanceleaf lungwort (Mertensia lanceolata)
• longleaf lungwort (Pulmonaria longifolia)
• lungwort lichen (Lobaria pulmonaria)
• lungwort oysterleaf (Mertensia virginica)
• narrowleaf lungwort (Pulmonaria angustifolia)
• Oregon lungwort (Lobaria oregana, Mertensia bella)
• red lungwort (Pulmonaria rubra)
• sea lungwort (Mertensia maritima)
• smooth lungwort (Lobaria quercizans, Mertensia virginica)
• Suffolk lungwort (Pulmonaria obscura)
• tall lungwort (Mertensia paniculata)
• textured lungwort (Lobaria scrobiculata)
• tree lungwort (Mertensia virginica, Sticta pulmonacea)
• unspotted lungwort (Pulmonaria obscura)

Related terms

• liverwort
• spleenwort (“asplenium”)
• toothwort (“dentaria”)
• woundwort

Translations

See also

• doctrine of signatures (Paracelsus); (lungwort being a treatment for lung ailments, and having the appearance like lungs)

English

Alternative forms

• erster (New York City and New Orleans)
• oister (obsolete)
• oystre (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English oystre, from Old English ostre, reinforced or superseded by Anglo-Norman oistre, which is from Old French oistre, uistre (compare modern French huître); both lines (Old English and Old French) from Latin ostrea, from Ancient Greek ??????? (óstreon).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???.st?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???.st?/
• Rhymes: -??st?(?)

Noun

oyster (plural oysters)

1. Any of certain marine bivalve mollusks, especially those of the family Ostreidae (the true oysters), usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers.
   • 1731, Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation, 1841, The Works of Jonathan Swift, Volume 2, page 344,

     He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

2. The delicate morsel of dark meat contained in a small cavity of the bone on each side of the lower part of the back of a fowl.
3. A pale beige color tinted with grey or pink, like that of an oyster.

4. (colloquial, by analogy) A person who keeps secrets.
5. (Britain, slang) A shoplifter.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

oyster (comparative more oyster, superlative most oyster)

1. Of a pale beige colour tinted with grey or pink, like that of an oyster.

Verb

oyster (third-person singular simple present oysters, present participle oystering, simple past and past participle oystered)

1. (intransitive) To fish for oysters.

See also

• astragalus
• bluepoint
• carpetbag steak
• clam
• lungwort
• mussel
• Ostreidae
• salsify
• spat
• Appendix:Colors

References

• oyster at OneLook Dictionary Search
• oyster on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Storey, Troyes, oystre, storey, toyers, tyroes