Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for BAR'REN-WORT
BAR'REN-WORT, n. [See Wort.]
A plant, constituting the genus Epimedium, of which the alpinum is the only species; a low herbaceous plant, with a creeping root, having many stalks, each of which has three flowers. – Encyc.
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