Definition of st john's wort St john's wort
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| st john's wort - any of numerous plants of the genus Hypericum having yellow flowers and transparently dotted leaves; traditionally gathered on St John's eve to ward off evil | ||
| subshrub, suffrutex low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base | ||
| genus hypericum, hypericum large almost cosmopolitan genus of evergreen or deciduous shrubs and herbs with often showy yellow flowers; cosmopolitan except tropical lowlands and Arctic or high altitudes and desert regions | ||
| common st john's wort, hypericum androsaemum, tutsan deciduous bushy Eurasian shrub with golden yellow flowers and reddish-purple fruits from which a soothing salve is made in Spain | ||
| great st john's wort, hypericum ascyron, hypericum pyramidatum perennial shrub having large star-shaped yellow flowers in narrowly pyramidal cymes | ||
| creeping st john's wort, hypericum calycinum creeping evergreen shrub with bright yellow star-shaped summer flowers; useful as ground cover | ||
| hypericum gentianoides, nitweed, orange grass, pine-weed, pineweed annual wiry-stemmed North American weed with minute scalelike leaves and small yellow flowers | ||
| hypericum crux andrae, st andrews's cross shrubby plant having yellow to apricot flowers with four petals arranged in a cross; southeastern United States: New York to Texas | ||
| hypericum hypericoides, low st andrew's cross low shrubby plant having yellow flowers with four petals arranged in a cross; Bermuda and southeastern United States to West Indies and eastern Mexico | ||
| hypericum perforatum, klammath weed yellow-flowered perennial common in fields and waste places but a weed in rangelands | ||
| hypericum prolificum, hypericum spathulatum, shrubby st john's wort stiff shrub having oblong entire leaves and dense cymes of yellow flowers | ||
| hypericum maculatum, hypericum tetrapterum, st peter's wort European perennial St John's wort; Ireland and France to western Siberia | ||
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Wiktionary 
- st john's wort (Noun)
Any of several plants, of the genus , that have yellow flowers and traditionally ward off evil.
