tormentil
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From mediaeval Latin tormentilla (“minor pain”), perhaps referring to the conditions that the plant was used to treat.
Noun[edit]
tormentil (countable and uncountable, plural tormentils)
- A low-growing herb (Potentilla erecta, syn. Potentilla tormentilla).
- 1615, Helkiah Crooke, Mikrokosmographia, London: William Jaggard, “A Dilucidation or Exposition of the Controuersies concerning the Historie of the Infant,” Question 31, p. 340,[1]
- […] the hearbe Tormentill which hath seauen leaues resisteth all poysons.
- 1788, S. Pallas, “Travels through Siberia and Tartary”, in John Trusler, editor, The Habitable World Described[2], volume 3, London, Part 2, p. 233:
- Instead of tea, they drink an infusion of the roots of the tormentil (Tormentilla erecta), which, when boiled, dyes the water reddish, gives it a very astringent taste, and is drank without milk.
- 1972, Richard Adams, chapter 50, in Watership Down[4], London: Macmillan:
- The flowers were sparser. Here and there a yellow tormentil showed in the grass, a late harebell or a few shreds of purple bloom on a brown, crisping tuft of self-heal.
- 1615, Helkiah Crooke, Mikrokosmographia, London: William Jaggard, “A Dilucidation or Exposition of the Controuersies concerning the Historie of the Infant,” Question 31, p. 340,[1]
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Translations[edit]
Potentilla erecta
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