behen

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English

Etymology

A Medieval Latin transcription of the Arabic بَهْمَن (bahman).

Noun

behen (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Any of various herbs and plants of the genera Limonium, Centaurea, Silene, etc.
    • 1735, John K'Eogh, Botanalogia Universalis Hibernica
      The roots and seed of red Behen are Styptic, or Restringent […]
    • 1862, American Journal of Pharmacy (volume 34, page 549)
      White Behen is referred by all writers on materia medica to Centaurea Behen L., a plant of Persia and traditionally also of the Lebanon.

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