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milkwort|ˈmɪlkwɜːt|
[f. milk n.1 + wort.]
1. Any plant of the genus Polygala, formerly supposed to increase the milk of nurses; esp. Polygala vulgaris, a common British plant bearing racemes of very irregular bright blue or sometimes pink or white flowers. bitter milkwort: the Polygala amara (Treas. Bot. 1866).
1578Lyte Dodoens i. xxxiii. 48 There be two kyndes of Mylkewurte, differing both in name and figure: whereof one is called Glaux, and the other Polygala. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. clx. 448 Of Milkewoorte. 1671Salmon Syn. Med. iii. xxii. 420 Polygala Πολυγαλον Milkwort, a handful steeped all night in white wine..purgeth Choller. 1759B. Stillingfleet tr. Gedner's Use Curios. in Misc. Tracts (1762) 191 No physician would have even suspected, that our milkwort would be usefull in the bite of serpents,..unless the principles of botany had led him to it. 1873Miss Thackeray Wks. (1891) I. 70 Dandelions and milk⁓wort among the beds.
2. A primulaceous plant, Glaux maritima, common on the sea-coast and in salt marshes. Also sea milkwort.
1578Lyte Dodoens i. xxxiii. 48 Glaux. Milkewurte, or sea Tryfoly. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. clix. 448 The true Glaux or Milkwoort groweth very plentifully in salt places and marshes neere the sea. Ibid., It shall suffice to call it in English Sea Milkwoort. 1640Parkinson Theat. Bot. Index 1741/2 Blacke Milkewort, or Sea Milkewort.
3. (Our) Lady's milkwort: lungwort, Pulmonaria officinalis.
1578Lyte Dodoens i. lxxxv. 125 We call it in English..Cowslip of Ierusalem:..in base Almaigne Onser vrouwen melck cruyt,..that is to say, Our Ladies Milkeworte, bycause the leaues be full of white spottes.
4. Any plant of the genus Euphorbia.
1640Parkinson Theat. Bot. 184 Tithymalus sive Lactaria. Spurge or Milkeworte. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. Add., Milk-wort, or Wart-wort, is also a name sometimes given to the Euphorbia. 1886Britten & Holland Plant-Names App., Milkwort, Euphorbia Helioscopia and other species (Essex).
5. pl. Name for the root of Campanula rotundifolia (Jam. 1880). |