wort
Old-fashioned healing herb
Wort is a plant or herb, now rare except in compound names of specific plants: St. John's wort, liverwort, mugwort.
These compounds often reflect old medicinal uses—liverwort was thought to treat liver ailments.
Separately, wort is the sugary liquid extracted from grain mash before fermentation into beer: The brewer tested the wort's specific gravity.
Sprouted grain for brewing
- mashCrushed soft mixture
- hopsBittering agent for ale
- yeastFermenting fungus
- fermentationMicrobial sugar conversion
boiling · kettle · barley · extract · gravity · sugars · steeping · runoff
Botanical organism
- herbFlavorful or medicinal plant
- herbaceousHaving soft green stems
- figwortFlowering plant, Scrophulariaceae family
- spiderwortPerennial with triangular blooms
motherwort · pearlwort · butterwort · moneywort · sandwort · toothwort · soapwort · milkwort
Curative treatment or fix
- poulticeMoist healing application
- infusionSteeping to extract essence
- tinctureHerb steeped in alcohol
- medicinalHaving healing properties
salve · healing · folk medicine · apothecary · decoction · herbalism · traditional · tisane
malt
Sprouted grain for brewing
fermentation · boiling · kettle · barley · extract · gravity · sugars · steeping · runoff · homebrew
plant
Botanical organism
- herbFlavorful or medicinal plant
- herbaceousHaving soft green stems
- figwortFlowering plant, Scrophulariaceae family
spiderwort · motherwort · pearlwort · butterwort · moneywort · sandwort · toothwort · soapwort · milkwort · pilewort
remedy
Curative treatment or fix
medicinal · salve · healing · folk medicine · apothecary · decoction · herbalism · traditional · tisane · compress
- Breweryale, brew kettle, brewmaster, brewpub, craft beer
- brewingmash, brewery, hops, malt, beer
- craft beercraft beer, craft brewery, microbrewery, brewpub, brewmaster
- Alcohol Makingbrewing, distilling, winemaking, fermenters, distillery
- beer ingredientsmalt, hops, yeast, water, grains
- Fermentablesglucose, fructose, sucrose, maltose, dextrose
wortpharmaceutical
Manufactured medicinal compound
synthetic drug · prescription medication · chemical compound · antibiotic · pill
- root wordsMorphemes carrying core meaning
- St. John's wortMedicinal yellow-flowered herb
- St John's wortMedicinal yellow-flowered herb
- St. Johns wortMood-boosting herbal supplement
- st johns wortHerbal supplement for mood
- root workFolk magic tradition
St. John's wort, mugwort, liverwort, ragwort, lungwort, pennywort, worts, bladderwort