margeline

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A type of herb referred to by Pliny as "asyla"; potentially chickweed or ivy-leaved speedwell. no-plural,obsolete
    — sheepe […] hate and abhor the female Pimpernell […] : howbeit, in case they should […] tast the Pimpernell with the blew floure, presently they have recourse (by a naturall instinct) to an hearbe for remedie called in Greeke Asyla, and by us in Latine Ferus oculus, [i. the wild and cruell eye, or Margellane.]

词源

First attested in 1572. Borrowed from French morgeline, derived from Medieval Latin Morsus gallinae.
See also chickweed, henbit.
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