Category: W
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Wintergreen
A shrubby evergreen plant whose leaves have a very pleasant aroma and taste. An evergreen shrub that grows close to the ground and is renowned for its aromatic leaves and red berries, which can be utilized to extract an oil commonly utilized as a flavoring agent in candies, chewing gum, and medicines, is known as…
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Willow
A deciduous tree; source of natural aspirin.
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Wild Pansy
A plant of the violet family.
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Wheatgrass
An annual cereal grass, high in vitamins and minerals, that is cultivated for its nutritional value. A chlorophyll-rich grass whose extracted juice is promoted as a treatment for anemia, ulcerative colitis, and other ailments.
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Wild-harvesting
The collection of medicinal material from natural plant populations with or without considering their sustainable use.
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Wavy
When the margin is alternately convex and concave. Of leaves with curved indentations in the same plane as the surface.
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Wortcunning
Anglo-Saxon for herb lore.
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Wound slough
Layer or mass of dead tissue separated from surrounding living tissue.
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Winnow
To separate the chaff from grain or seed by wind or a forced current of air; eliminating the dry covering and other substances that are not desired in food.
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Wandering pacemaker
An atrial arrhythmia that occurs when the natural cardiac pacemaker site shifts between the sino-atrial node, the atria and/or the atrioventricular node. A cardiac arrhythmia in which the site of origin of the pacemaker stimulus shifts from one site to another, usually from the atrioventricular node to some other part of the atrium.