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pellitory of the wall en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymologically a tautology.

Meanings

  1. A plant of the species Parietaria officinalis, that has greenish flowers and often grows on walls (eastern pellitory-of-the-wall).
    • The juice of Pellitory-of-the-Wall clarified and boiled into a syrup with honey, and a spoonful of it drunk every morning by such as are subject to the dropsy; if continuing that course though but once a week, if ever they have the dropsy, let them come but to me and I will cure them gratis. 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 216:
    • Leonardo Fioravanti, an Italian Physitian, beside many other secrets, assumeth unto himself the discovery of one concerning Pellitory of the Wall; that is, that it never groweth in the sight of the North star. 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.7:
  2. Parietaria judaica (spreading pellitory)