shepherd's purse

English

Alluding to the shape of its seed vessel. Compare mediaeval Latin bursa pastoris, French bourse-à-berger, German Hirtentasche.

shepherd 's purse (uncountable)

An edible weed, Capsella bursa-pastoris, family Brassicaceae, native to Europe but now found world-wide.
Synonym: shepherd's pouch
- 1979, Angela Carter, ‘The Erl-King’, The Bloody Chamber, Vintage 2006, p. 98:
  Stewed nettles; savoury messes of chickweed sprinkled with nutmeg; he cooks the foliage of shepherd's purse as if it were cabbage.

Capsella bursa-pastoris

Albanian: shtrapër (sq) m
Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Azerbaijani: quşəppəyi (az)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 薺菜／荠菜 (zh) (jìcài), 荠菜 (zh) (jìcài)

Min Nan: 上己菜 (siōng-kí-chhài)
Czech: kokoška pastuší tobolka f
Dutch: herderstasje (nl) n
Finnish: lutukka (fi)
French: bourse-à-pasteur (fr) f, boursette (fr) f, capselle (fr) f, bourse-à-berger (fr) f
German: Hirtentäschel (de) n, Hirtentäschelkraut n
Greek: αγριοκαρδαμούδα f (agriokardamoúda)
Ancient: θλάσπις f (thláspis)
Hindi: please add this translation if you can
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Ido: pastoroburso (io)
Japanese: ナズナ (nazuna)
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Norman: bourse f (Jersey), pid d'ouaîthé m (Jersey)
Polish: tasznik m
Portuguese: bolsa-de-pastor f
Romanian: traista-ciobanului (ro) f, punguliță (ro) f
Russian: сумочник пастуший m (sumočnik pastušij)
Slovak: pastierska kapsička (sk) f
Spanish: bolsa del pastor m
Turkish: çobançantası (tr)
Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can