Another name for plants of the fumitory family, named for their smoky or hazy appearance.
Compound of 'fume' (Latin fumus) + 'wort' (Old English wyrt, plant), a traditional English naming pattern for herbs resembling the fumitory plant.
English herbalists created '-wort' compounds to describe plants for centuries (mugwort, ragwort, figwort)—it's an efficient naming system that let speakers quickly communicate what a plant looked like or what it did.
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