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noun
Meum athamanticum, an ornamental plant in the Apiaceae family.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Synonyms: meu, meon, meum, spignel, bearwort
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A Gentianeae tribe plant, gentian or felwort.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Apparently a corruption of Latin valdē bona (“very good”) (a plant mentioned in Leonhart Fuchs's Great Herbal). Earliest forms seem to come from an intermediate, unattested French form baudemoine (modern French baudremoine) and by analogy to the plant name agrimony.
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