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ˈpenny-grass
[f. penny + grass.]
Popular name of three different plants: a. Navelwort or Wall Pennywort, Cotyledon Umbilicus; b. Marsh Pennywort, Hydrocotyle vulgaris (in both cases from the round leaves); c. Yellow-rattle, Rhinanthus Crista-galli (from the flat roundish pods).
a1387Sinon. Barthol. (Anecd. Oxon.) 43 Umbilicus veneris,..penigresse. c1450Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.) 44 Cotilidon siue simbalion, umbilicus ueneris idem..penygres. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §54 Peny grasse..groweth lowe by the erthe in a marsshe grounde, and hath a leafe as brode as a peny of two pens, and neuer beareth floure. 1613Markham Eng. Husbandman ii. ii. vii. (1635) 84 If..the Penigrasse be hard, dry, and withered, then..your Meddow is ripe. 1757Dyer Fleece i. 690 Nor taintworm shall infect the yeaning herds, Nor pennygrass, nor spearwort's pois'nous leaf. 1886Britten & Holland Eng. Plant.-n. App., Grass, Penny..(3) Cotyledon Umbilicus.—Irel. |