Categories: Medicinal Plant
Comfrey (Wiktionary)
English
Alternative forms
- comphrey, cumfrey
Etymology
From Middle English cumfiria, from Latin (herba) cōnfirma in Pseudo-Apuleius, also called cōnsolida, cōnserva, cōnferva, from conferveo (“to boil together”); from the use of the plant in tea to aid in healing bones. Doublet of consound and conferva.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkʌm.fɹi/
Noun
comfrey (countable and uncountable, plural
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