medick
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Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English medike, from Latin mēdica, from Ancient Greek μηδίκη (mēdíkē), short for Μηδικὴ πόα (Mēdikḕ póa, “Median grass”);[1] so called because medick was imported from Media to Greece during the Greco-Persian Wars.[2]
Noun[edit]
medick (usually uncountable, plural medicks)
- Any of various European and North African herbs, of the genus Medicago, several of which are grown for fodder etc.
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Derived terms[edit]
- black medick (Medicago lupulina)
- purple medick (Medicago sativa)
- shield medick (Medicago scutellata)
- sickle medick (Medicago falcata)
- tree medick (Medicago arborea)
- yellow medick (Medicago falcata)
Translations[edit]
plant of the genus Medicago
Etymology 2[edit]
Adjective[edit]
medick (not comparable)
- Obsolete spelling of medic (“medical”)
- 1743, Martin Marley, The Good Confessor, page 307:
- […] guided not by his own Will, but by the Medick Science, […]
References[edit]
- ^ “medick”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
- ^ Pliny the Elder, Historia Naturalis 18.43.144.
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