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† ˈdragonwort Obs.
1. The plant Dracunculus vulgaris; = dragons.
1565–73Cooper Thesaurus, Dracontium..Dragonwort, or dragens. 1578Lyte Dodoens iii. vi. 322 It is thought..that those which carrie about them the leaues or rootes of great Dragonwurtes, cannot be hurt nor stong of Vipers and Serpentes. 1607Topsell Serpents (1658) 594 A certain experimental unguent..made of..the roots of dragonwort.
2. small d.: the common Arum or Wake-robin.
1674Blagrave Suppl. to Culpepper's Eng. Physic. 54 Aron maculatum; in English, small Dragon-wort, and speckled Aron.
3. The Snakeweed, Polygonum Bistorta. rare.
1656Culpepper Eng. Physic. 35 Bistort..is called Snake⁓weed,..Dragonwort. |