fiddlewood

Bot.: Scrophularia aquatic a , so called because the stems are by children stripped of their leaves and scraped acro each other fiddler-fashion, when they produce a squeaking sound. ( Britten & Hol land .) fid-dle (2), s . [A corruption of Fr. fidèle a plant of the Vervain order, Citharexylum melanocardium.] Bot .: A term used only as part of the subjoined compound.