tormentil
Noun
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Noun
tormentil (plural tormentils)
- A low-growing herb (Potentilla erecta, syn. Potentilla tormentilla).
- 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.
- 1788, John Trusler (ed.), The Habitable World Described, London, Volume 3, “Travels through Siberia and Tartary” by Peter Simon Pallas, Part 2, p. 233,
- Instead of tea, they drink an infusion of the roots of the tormentil (Tormentilla erecta), which, when boiled, dyes the water reddish, gives it a very astringent taste, and is drank without milk.
- 1917, Mary Webb, Gone to Earth, New York: Dutton, Chapter 25, p. 206,
- The bracken, waist-high at first, was like small hoops at the top of the wood, where the tiny golden tormentil made a carpet and the yellow pimpernel was closing her eager eyes.
- 1972, Richard Adams, Watership Down, London: Macmillan, Chapter 50,
- The flowers were sparser. Here and there a yellow tormentil showed in the grass, a late harebell or a few shreds of purple bloom on a brown, crisping tuft of self-heal.
- 1615, Helkiah Crooke, Mikrokosmographia, London: William Jaggard, “A Dilucidation or Exposition of the Controuersies concerning the Historie of the Infant,” Question 31, p. 340,
- shepherd's knot
- German: Blutwurz
- Portuguese: tormentilha
- Russian: лапча́тка прямостоя́чая
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