comfrey, healing herb
(noun) leaves make a popular tisane; young leaves used in salads or cooked
comfrey, cumfrey
(noun) perennial herbs of Europe and Iran; make rapidly growing groundcover for shaded areas
Source: WordNet® 3.1
comfrey (countable and uncountable, plural comfreys)
Any of several species of perennial herbs of the genus Symphytum, often specifically Symphytum officinale.
Source: Wiktionary
Com"frey, n. Etym: [Prob. from F. conferve, L. conferva, fr. confervere to boil together, in medical language, to heal, grow together. So called on account of its healing power, for which reason it was also called consolida.] (Bot.)
Definition: A rough, hairy, perennial plant of several species, of the genus Symphytum.
Note: A decoction of the mucilaginous root of the "common comfrey" (S. officinale) is used in cough mixtures, etc.; and the gigantic "prickly comfrey" (S. asperrimum) is somewhat cultivated as a forage plant.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
9 March 2025
(verb) fill to excess so that function is impaired; “Fear clogged her mind”; “The story was clogged with too many details”
According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.