A Scottish dialect name for the cornflower (Centaurea cyanus), referring to its distinctive blue color. 'Blaw' relates to the Scots word for blue, and 'wort' is an old English word for a plant. The term is now effectively obsolete in everyday speech, replaced by 'cornflower.'
The edges of the field were brilliant with blawort and poppies in early summer.
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(Scotland) , cornflower.
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