Definitions For Betony

Noun

BETONY (plural betonies) Any plant of the genus stachys. stachys officinalis (syn. Betonica officinalis, an herb used in traditional European medicine. (North America) Any plant of the genus pedicularis (louseworts).

Synonyms

Stachys heal-all, self-heal, woundwort, lamb's ears, {{vern, hedgenettle}} Stachys officinalis {{vern, purple betony}}, {{vern, bishopwort}}, {{vern, wild hop}}, {{vern, bishop's wort}}, {{vern, common hedgenettle}}, lousewort, wood betony Pedicularis lousewort, wood betony

Translations

plant of the genus Stachys, woundwort Arabic: قَسْطَرَان, m Armenian: {{t-needed, hy}} Belarusian: бу́квіца, f Bulgarian: ранилист, m Czech: bukvice, f, bukvice lékařská Danish: lægebetonie, c, læge-betonie , c, lægegaltetand, c Dutch: betonie Estonian: harilik tõnnike Finnish: rohtopähkämö French: bétoine, f, épiaire, f German: Betonie, f, Heilziest, m, Gliedkraut, n, Ziest, m, Ziestkraut, n Hungarian: tisztesfû, orvosi tisztesfû Italian: betonica Kazakh: {{t-needed, kk}} Persian: بطونیکا (betuniká, sc=fa-Arab) Polish: bukwica, bukwica zwyczajna Romanian: vindecea, f, betonică, f Russian: бу́квица, f Serbo-Croatian: bȕkvica, f Slovak: bukvica, f, bukvica lekárska, f Slovene: bȗkvica, f Sorbian: : Lower Sorbian: bukwica : Upper Sorbian: bukwica Spanish: betónica Swedish: läkebetonika, c, humlesuga, c Turkish: : Ottoman Turkish: كستره (kestere, küstere) : Modern Turkish: kestere, küstere Ukrainian: бу́квиця plant of the genus Pedicularis, lousewort

Etymology

From Middle English betayny, betanie, from {{der, en, ML., betōnia}} (possibly through {{der, en, fro, -}}), from {{der, en, la, betōnica}} or vettonica, ve(t)tōnica, from Vettones, a people in Lusitania. Compare {{cog, fr, bétoine}}.