1. Any of various low-growing tufted plants of the genus Paronychia having tiny greenish flowers and usually whorled leaves; widespread throughout warm regions of both Old and New Worlds; formerly thought to cure whitlows (suppurative infections around a fingernail)
   "Whitlowwort was once applied to infected fingers as a folk remedy"

Type of: ground cover, groundcover

Part of: genus Paronychia, Paronychia

Encyclopedia: Whitlowwort