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dittander ? Obs.|dɪˈtændə(r)|
[Of the same origin as dittany; the form ditaundere appears to be Anglo-F. (cf. OF. ditan), but its terminal part is unexplained.]
1. A name for Pepperwort, Lepidium latifolium: = dittany 4.
[c1265Voc. Plants in Wr.-Wülcker 556/34 Diptannum, ditaundere.] 1578[see dittany 4]. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. vii. §2. 188 The Englishmen [call it] Dittander, Ditany, and Pepperwoort. 1671Salmon Syn. Med. iii. xxii. 419 Piperitis, λεπιδιον, Dittander. 1832Veg. Subst. Food 195 Dittander..The leaves..are..hot and acrid..whence..the name of ‘poor man's pepper’.
†2. Dittany of Crete: = dittany 1. Obs.
1607Topsell Serpents (1658) 619 Things that..will likewise defend and keep us from venomous creatures: as for example; Southernwood, Dittander, Fleabane, Calamint. 1611Cotgr., Dictame de Candie, dittanie of Candia, the right Dittander. 1658Phillips, Dittany, or Dittander, a herb growing abundantly in Dicte, a Promontory of Creet. |