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Comfrey

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Noun

1. comfrey, cumfrey

perennial herbs of Europe and Iran; make rapidly growing groundcover for shaded areas

2. comfrey, healing herb

leaves make a popular tisane; young leaves used in salads or cooked

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Comfrey

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noun
any hairy Eurasian boraginaceous plant of the genus Symphytum, having blue, purplish-pink, or white flowers

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Comfrey

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nounWord forms: plural ˈcomfreys
any of a genus (Symphytum) of European plants of the borage family, with rough, hairy leaves and small blue, purplish, or yellow flowers, sometimes used for forage or ornament

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Comfrey

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n. pl. com·freys
Any of various hairy perennial Eurasian herbs of the genus Symphytum, especially S. officinale, having variously colored flowers in coiled cymes and long used in herbal medicine.

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