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† ˈalimon, n. Herb. Obs.
[Apparently a. Gr. ἅλιµον, ‘a shrubby plant growing on the shore, perh. salt-wort,’ Liddell & Scott; prop. neut. (sc. ϕυτόν) of ἅλιµος maritime. Confused by early herbalists with Gr. ἄλῑµον, ‘banishing hunger,’ whence this attribute ascribed to the plant.]
A plant fabled to dispel hunger; perh. Atriplex halimus of the Levant, identified by modern botanists with the ἅλιµον of the Greeks.
1572J. Bossewell Armorie iii. 17 b, Gesante an Alimon proper..The Herbe aforesaide, which he beareth, is of that nature, that it will not suffer them that taste it, to be hungrye. 1601Holland Pliny (1634) II. 128 Ther is an herb..called Alimon: about which writers haue erred not a little. |