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ˈcarmele Sc.
Also carameile.
[a. Gael. cairmeal, corra-meille, Ir. cara meala, ‘heath-pea, wild licorice’.]
The Heath Pea (Lathyrus macrorrhizus), a leguminous British plant with an edible tuberous root.
1771Shaw in Pennant Tour Scotl. (1769) App. 310 (Jam.) One root..which we call carmele..grows in heaths and birch woods to the bigness of a large nut..I have often seen it dried, and kept for journeys through hills where no provisions could be had. 1884Miller Plant-n., Carameile. |