navelwort

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na·vel·wort

(nā′vəl-wûrt′, -wôrt′)

1. Any of various Eurasian plants of the genus Omphalodes, having cymes of usually blue flowers and nutlets with a navellike depression on one side.

2. See pennywort.

[Sense 2, from the navellike depression in the center of its leaves.]

navelwort

(ˈneɪvəlˌwɜːt)

(Plants) another name for pennywort¹

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Unsurprisingly, the two are related - members of the borage family, with the same dimpled centre shared by many borages and giving one of them its common name: navelwort.

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Its common name is navelwort, from its depressed 'belly button' centres.

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Wedi iddo ddisgrifio'r planhigyn, mi sylweddolais i mai'r ddeilen gron oedd o (Umbilicus rupestris; navelwort neu pennywort yn Saesneg).

Defnydd deilen gron i drin llosg eira; LLxN Y LLYSIAU

English: Asian pennywort, Asiatic coinwort, Asiatic pennywort, Indian pennywort, Indian water navelwort, Marsh penny, Marsh pennywort, Pennyweed, Sheep-rot, Spadeleaf, Thick-leaved pennywort, Water pennywort, White rot 5 Colocasia esculenta (L.

A survey of plant items eaten by the low income groups of the rural population of Talbunia Village in Bagerhat District, Bangladesh with an account of their folk medicinal applications

Borage, whose flowers we float in our glasses of Pimms, seeds itself with gay abandon, as do forget-me-nots (pictured) and Omphalodes linifolia, a delightful whiteflowered, glaucousleaved navelwort that is exceptional in preferring a poor, sunny, well-drained situation.