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noun
Meum athamanticum, an ornamental plant in the Apiaceae family found in mountain areas in Central and Western Europe, with roots and feathery leaves used as food and for medicinal purposes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: baldmoney, bear's wort, bearwort, bear-wort, maldmoney, meon, meu, meum
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Preceded by a descriptive word: a plant resembling Meum athamanticum.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The dried, powdered root of Meum athamanticum used as a cooking spice or a medicine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Either: * an alteration of Middle English spigurnel (“unidentified broomlike flowering plant with medicinal uses”) [and other forms], borrowed from Anglo-Norman spigurnel, spigurnelle, and Anglo-Latin spigurnella, further etymology unknown; or * from spike + nail, because of the shape of its capillary leaves.
