What is the meaning of Wort?

Now chiefly as the second element in the names of plants: a plant used for food or medicine.

Chiefly in the plural: a plant of the genus Brassica used as a vegetable; a brassica; especially, a cabbage (Brassica oleracea).

A non-vascular plant growing on land from the division Anthocerotophyta (the hornworts) or Marchantiophyta (liverworts); an anthocerotophyte or marchantiophyte.

Also worts: a liquid extracted from mash (ground malt or some other grain soaked in hot water), which is then fermented to make beer, or fermented and distilled to make a malt liquor such as whisky.

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diction, what someone says or writes

prescription, order

A plant (not including trees, shrubs, etc.):

  1. A plant that is wild or not cultivated or harvested.
  2. A plant that harvested or grown; often as a herb or vegetable.
  3. A plant employed for supposed curative or medical properties.
  4. A leaf as part of a salad or other vegetable dish.

A plant that is wild or not cultivated or harvested.

A plant that harvested or grown; often as a herb or vegetable.

A plant employed for supposed curative or medical properties.

A leaf as part of a salad or other vegetable dish.

Wort (as in brewing) or an analogous mixture (e.g. used for mead)

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wort (the infusion of malt which is fermented to become beer)

snout of a pig

to root up, dig (up)

to root

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wort (unfermented beer)

Source: wiktionary.org