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scurvy-grass en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Any of several European plants, of the genus Cochlearia, formerly believed useful in treating scurvy.
   • [T]he seed of Scurvy-grass very much resembles the make of a Concha Venerea, a kind of Purcelane Schell […]. 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXXI:
   • Knowing that sellery and scurvey grass and other vegetables were to be found in this sound […] , I went myself at day light in the morn in search of some and returned by breakfast with a boat load […] . 1773, James Cook, The Journals, Second Voyage, 19 May
   • The seeds of Scurvy-grasse growing in waterpots have been fruitfull in the Land 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 205:

Forms

Synonyms

spoonwort

Translations (14)

pl warzucha (Cochlearia) · ota قاشیق اوتی (Cochlearia) · ru ло́жечница (Cochlearia) · fr cochléaire (Cochlearia) · fi kuirimo (Cochlearia) · nl lepelblad (Cochlearia) · bg лечебен хрян (Cochlearia) · fr cranson (Cochlearia) · et merisalat (Cochlearia) · ro lingurea (Cochlearia) · ca cocleària (Cochlearia) · sv skörbjuggsört (Cochlearia) · ru ло́жечная трава́ (Cochlearia) · de Löffelkraut (Cochlearia)