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kuirimo.

scurvy-grass, spoonwort (plant of the genus Cochlearia, many of which have been used in traditional medicine to cure and prevent scurvy)

7 characters3 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈkui̯rimo/[ˈkui̯rimo̞]
  1. scurvy-grass, spoonwort (plant of the genus Cochlearia, many of which have been used in traditional medicine to cure and prevent scurvy)

Where this word comes from

kuiri (“spoon”) (dialectal) + -mo. Coined by Finnish physician and philologist Elias Lönnrot for Flora Fennica (1860), in reference to the taxonomic name Cochlearia (from Latin cochlear (“spoon”)).

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