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fleawort|ˈfliːwɜːt|
[OE. fléawyrt, f. flea n. + -wort.]
A name given to various plants.
Amongst the plants that have been so called from their supposed virtues in destroying fleas are Inula Conyza and some species of Cineraria and Erigeron. Turner and many subsequent writers apply the name to Plantago Psyllium, the Lat. and Gr. names of which (Pulicaria, ψύλλιον) refer to the resemblance of the seeds to fleas.
c1000Ags. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 273/24 Parirus [? papirus], fleawyrt. 1548Turner Names of Herbes (1881) 65 It [Psyllium] may be called in English Flewurte. c1550Lloyd Treas. Health (1585) M vij b, A bath made of the decoction of flewort taketh away all goutes. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. cxxiv. §1. 390 Conyza maior, Great Fleawoort. 1601Holland Pliny II. 239 Psyllium, Fleawort, is good for the vlcers thereof. 1756Sir J. Hill Herbal 159 Fleawort, Psyllium, the flower is composed of four small oval petals. 1820Green Univ. Herbal I. 304 Cineraria Integrifolia, Mountain Cineraria or Fleawort. Ibid. I. 512 The old name of this plant [Erigeron Viscosum] is..great fleawort. 1825J. E. Smith Eng. Flora III. 443 Cineraria palustris, Marsh Flea-wort.
attrib.1600Surflet Countrie Farme i. xii. 61 Putting thereto the muscilage of fleawort seede. |