margeline

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Definition of margeline

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noun

(no-plural, obsolete)A type of herb referred to by Pliny as "asyla"; potentially chickweed or ivy-leaved speedwell.

“sheepe […] hate and abhor the female Pimpernell […] : howbeit, in case they should […] tast the Pimpernell with the blew floure, presently they have recourse (by a naturall instinct) to an hearbe for remedie called in Greeke Asyla, and by us in Latine Ferus oculus, [i. the wild and cruell eye, or Margellane.]”

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First attested in 1572. Borrowed from French morgeline, derived from Medieval Latin Morsus gallinae. See also chickweed, henbit.

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