different between madwort vs meadwort

English

Etymology

mad +? wort, as formerly believed to cure canine madness.

Noun

madwort (plural madworts)

1. Certain of the alyssums.
2. German madwort (Asperugo procumbens)

Translations

Derived terms

• American madwort (Alyssum obovatum)
• German madwort (Asperugo procumbens)
• goldentuft madwort rock madwort (Alyssum saxatile, Aurinia saxatilis)
• pale madwort (Alyssum alyssoides)
• roadside false madwort (Berteroa mutabilis)
• rock madwort (Alyssum saxatile)
• Szowits' madwort (Alyssum szovitsianum)

English

Alternative forms

• medæwart [16th c.]

Etymology

From Middle English medewort, from Old English medewyrt, medowyrt, corresponding to mead +? wort. Cognate with Norwegian mjødurt, Danish mjødurt.

Noun

meadwort (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Meadowsweet, a plant found near rivers or on damp ground.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:

     The metall first he mixt with Medæwart, / That no enchauntment from his dint might saue; / That it in flames of Aetna wrought apart, / And seuen times dipped in the bitter waue / Of hellish Styx, which hidden vertue to it gaue.

Anagrams

• damewort, metaword, to meward, two-armed, wardmote