Why this word is great
LUSTWORT — [Noun] A carnivorous plant of the genus Drosera, historically employed as a folk aphrodisiac. From the Middle English lust ("pleasure, desire") + wort ("plant, herb"), named for its traditional use as an aphrodisiac. Unlike "sundew," a neutral descriptor of its glistening leaves, or the clinical "aphrodisiac," lustwort is a relic of sympathetic magic, a botanical promise steeped in yearning. It is the sticky, crimson filament glinting with false promise in a bog's gloom, the slow, digestive curl around a trapped midge, and the desperate paste pounded from its leaves—a humble testament to our compulsion to seek cures for our deepest hungers in the quiet, amoral machinery of the wild.