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cassidony2 Bot.|ˈkæsɪdənɪ|
[Of uncertain etymology: suggestions are that it is the same word as prec., or of the same derivation.
(Skinner's guess that it might be a corruption of *Stœchas sidonius labours under the fatal objection that no such name is known.)]
1. The plant Lavandula Stœchas, French lavender.
1578Lyte Dodoens ii. lxxxvii. 266 It is called..in English French Lauender, Cassidonie, and of some Lauender gentle. 1597Gerard Herbal (1633) 586 (L.) In English..Cassidonie; and some simple people, imitating the same name do call it ‘Cast me down’. 1629Parkinson Kitchen Gard. i. vii. 471 Cassidonie is a small kinde of Lauender, but differing both in forme & qualitie. 1713J. Petiver in Phil. Trans. XXVIII. 43 Cassidony or French Lavander. 1753in Chambers Cycl. Supp. App., and in mod. Dicts.
2. ‘Mountain cassidony or Golden Cassidony: names used for the Gnaphalium of authors’, Chambers Cycl. Supp. App. (Gnaphalium Stœchas Treas. Bot.) |