savin
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From Old French savine, from Latin Sabina (“Sabine (herb)”).
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savin (plural savins)
- An evergreen European shrub that yields a medicinal oil.
- The dried tips of this plant, with poisonous and anthelmintic properties, used as a drug.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ii:
- th'aged Nurse her calling to her bowre, / Had gathered Rew, and Sauine, and the flowre / Of Camphara, and Calamint, and Dill, / All which she in a earthen Pot did poure [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ii:
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savin
- Instructive plural form of savi.
