stanmarch

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Etymology

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From Middle English stanmarche, from Old English stānmerċe, compound of stān (stone) +‎ merċe (smallage).

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stanmarch (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) Smyrnium olusatrum, alexanders, horse parsley, an herb of the umbellifer family.
    • 1877 January 11, Thomas Comber, “The etymology of plant names, Part II. Kitchen-vegetables and salad-plants”, in Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire[1], page 62:
      The A. S. name [mersc] passed into Old Eng. and survived to Turner’s time ; but now occurs only in Stanmarch, which has been transferred from the Parsley to the allied Alexanders, or Horse-parsley (Smyrnium Olusatrum, L.) a plant formerly much cultivated for salads.
    • 1897, William Thomas Fernie, Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure[2], Lettuce, page 313:
      The herb was also known as Stanmarch. It grows on waste places by rivers near the sea, having been formerly cultivated like celery, which has now supplanted it.

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