paronychia
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1. low-growing annual or perennial herbs or woody plants; whitlowworts (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | caryophylloid dicot genus, |
| definition | : | genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | whitlowwort, |
| definition | : | any of various low-growing tufted plants of the genus Paronychia having tiny greenish flowers and usually whorled leaves; widespread throughout warm regions of both Old and New Worlds; formerly thought to cure whitlows (suppurative infections around a fingernail) (noun.plant) |
2. infection in the tissues adjacent to a nail on a finger or toe (noun.state)
| hypernym | : | infection, |
| definition | : | the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms (noun.state) |
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