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stanmarch en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English stanmarche, from Old English stānmerċe, compound of stān (“stone”) + merċe (“smallage”).

Meanings

  1. (archaic, uncountable) Smyrnium olusatrum, alexanders, horse parsley, an herb of the umbellifer family.
    • The herb was also known as Stanmarch. It grows on waste places by rivers near the sea, having been formerly cultivated like celery, which has now supplanted it. 1897, William Thomas Fernie, Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure, Lettuce, page 313:
    • The A. S. name [mersc] passed into Old Eng. and survived to Turner’s time ; but now occurs only in Stanmarch, which has been transferred from the Parsley to the allied Alexanders, or Horse-parsley (Smyrnium Olusatrum, L.) a plant formerly much cultivated for salads. 1877 January 11, Thomas Comber, “The etymology of plant names, Part II. Kitchen-vegetables and salad-plants”, in Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, page 62: