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comfrey
[ kuhm-free ]
noun
, plural com·freys.
- any coarse Eurasian plant belonging to the genus Symphytum, of the borage family, as the widely cultivated S. officinale, having hairy, lance-shaped leaves and drooping clusters of small, white, rose-colored, or purplish flowers.
comfrey
/ ˈkʌmfrɪ /
noun
- any hairy Eurasian boraginaceous plant of the genus Symphytum, having blue, purplish-pink, or white flowers
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of comfrey1
C15: from Old French cunfirie, from Latin conferva water plant; see conferva
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Example Sentences
Lavallée in his note (p. 94) translates this consoude, which in English is comfrey, Latin Symphytum.
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Where undisturbed the comfrey grows to a great size, the stems becoming very thick.
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Yellow loosestrife is rising, thick comfrey stands at the very edge; the sandpipers run where the shore is free from bushes.
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Mr. Comfrey made a deprecatory gesture, and Fred said, rather roughly: "What do I care about all that?"
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Mrs. Comfrey seemed hardly to consider herself, and certainly Miss Baldwin didn't consider her, on an equality with Mrs. Eldridge.
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