Associations to the word «Scrophularia»

Wiktionary

SCROPHULARIA, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Scrophulariaceae   — the figworts, native principally to Asia.

Dictionary definition

SCROPHULARIA, noun. Type genus of Scrophulariaceae; named for the plants' supposed ability to cure scrofula: figworts.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope