[fig-wurt, -wawrt] 
| any of numerous tall, usually coarse woodland plants of the genus Scrophularia, having a terminal cluster of small greenish-brown to purplish-brown flowers. |
| fig·wort (fĭg'wûrt', -wôrt') n. Any of various plants of the genus Scrophularia having loose branching clusters of small greenish or purple flowers. [fig1, piles (obsolete) + wort1 (from its use as a folk medicine).] |
