hog's wort en · NOUN
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(no-plural) A plant of the genus Peucedanum.
Round the fish are placed four flat stones, on which the plant hog's wort (Peucedanum leiocarpum, Nutt.), red paint, and bulrushes are burnt as an offering to the salmon.
1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 254: