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‖ Thlaspi Bot.|ˈθlæspɪ|
Also 7 thlaspe, 8 thlaspy.
[mod.L., a. Gr. θλάσπι, -ις, ‘a sort of cress, the seed of which was bruised and used like mustard’ (L. and Sc.).]
A genus of cruciferous plants (tribe Thlaspideæ), containing about thirty species, chiefly annuals, bearing insignificant white, pink, or purplish flowers, succeeded by flattened orbicular seed-pods. T. arvense, Penny-cress, was formerly in repute for its medicinal qualities.
Formerly including Capsella or Shepherd's Purse, and loosely applied to Candytuft, etc.
1562Turner Herbal ii. 152 Thlaspi is named..in English triacle mustard, boures mustard, or dishe mustarde. 1579Langham Gard. Health (1633) 634 Thlaspi seeds eaten, purge choller. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. xix. 207 The seede of Thlaspi..helpeth the sciatica. 1640Parkinson Theat. Bot. vii. xii. 839 That Thlaspi that the best do allow for the truest Thlaspi to be used in Treakle and Mithridate. 1725Bradley's Fam. Dict. s.v. Shepherds Purse, Some⁓what like the Leaves of Thlapsi. 1842Penny Cycl. XXIV. 384/2 The genus Thlapsi is known by its silicles being emarginate at the apex with the valves winged at the back. |