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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

GYPSYWORT

GYPSYWORT Gyp "sy *wort ", n. (Bot. )

 

Defn: A labiate plant (the Lycopus Europæus ). Gypsies are said to stain their skin with its juice.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

gypsywort

gypsywort (also gipsywort ) ▶noun a white-flowered Eurasian plant of the mint family, which grows in damp habitats. ●Lycopus europaeus, family Labiatae. ORIGIN late 18th cent.: so named because it was reputed to have been used by Gypsies to stain the skin brown.

 

Oxford Dictionary

gypsywort

gypsywort (also gipsywort ) ▶noun a white-flowered Eurasian plant of the mint family, which grows in damp habitats. ●Lycopus europaeus, family Labiatae. ORIGIN late 18th cent.: so named because it was reputed to have been used by Gypsies to stain the skin brown.