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A low-growing herb (Potentilla erecta, syn. Potentilla tormentilla).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- 1615, Helkiah Crooke, Mikrokosmographia, London: William Jaggard, “A Dilucidation or Exposition of the Controuersies concerning the Historie of the Infant,” Question 31, p. 340, [...] the hearbe Tormentill which hath seauen leaues resisteth all poysons.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
From mediaeval Latin tormentilla (“minor pain”), perhaps referring to the conditions that the plant was used to treat.
Across languages
Translations
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Bulgarian:
очиболец
(očibolec)
— Potentilla erecta
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Dutch:
tormentil
— Potentilla erecta
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Finnish:
rätvänä
— Potentilla erecta
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Galician:
solda
— Potentilla erecta
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German:
Blutwurz
— Potentilla erecta
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Icelandic:
blóðmura
— Potentilla erecta
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Irish:
néalfartach
— Potentilla erecta
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Italian:
tormentilla
— Potentilla erecta
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Norman:
hèrbe à paralysie
— Potentilla erecta
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Norwegian Bokmål:
tepperot
— Potentilla erecta
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
tepperot
— Potentilla erecta
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Portuguese:
tormentilha
— Potentilla erecta
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Russian:
лапча́тка прямостоя́чая
(lapčátka prjamostojáčaja)
— Potentilla erecta
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Russian:
калга́н
(kalgán)
— Potentilla erecta
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Russian:
лапча́тка-у́зик
(lapčátka-úzik)
— Potentilla erecta
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Russian:
дубро́вка
(dubróvka)
— Potentilla erecta
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Swedish:
blodrot
— Potentilla erecta
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Ottoman Turkish:
طوپوزلق
(topuzluk)
— Potentilla erecta
