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Orobus Bot.|ˈɒrəʊbəs|
[L. (Pliny), a. Gr. ὄροβος some kind of vetch; adopted by Linnæus (Genera Plantarum (1737) 325) and earlier botanists as the name of a genus.]
A herb of the genus so called, belonging to the family Leguminosæ and now usually included in the genus Lathyrus; = bitter-vetch (bitter- a. 2).
Usually Englished from Turner onward as bitter vetch, an appellation founded by Turner upon a passage in Galen; though the early herbalists admit that the identity of Galen's ὄροβος was unknown to them.
1551Turner Herbal i. P iij b, Galen..and Aetius with one consent hold that the black orobus is bitter. 1562Ibid. ii. 77 b, Opium..taken in the quantite of a bitter fich, called eruum or orobus. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 91/2 Wood, or wild Orobus [hath] the Flowers white, the cod black. 1703tr. van Oosten's Dutch Gardener ii. cv. 135 Of the Orobus. This is a small blue purplish Flower, bears plentifully; it is a sort of Vetches. 1801Curtis's Bot. Mag. XV. 521 (heading) Early-flowering Orobus. 1894W. Robinson Wild Garden (ed. 4) vi. 53 Among the plants that are suitable for hedgerows and lanes, &c. are..May Apple, Orobus in variety, many Narcissi. 1903Flora & Sylva I. 202/1 The name ‘Orobus’ is useful, for it expresses a race of plants..distinct from the climbers to which the name ‘Lathyrus’ was formerly exclusively applied. These Orobi..supply some of the most beautiful of spring and early summer flowers. |