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ˈsneezewort
Also 6 sneesewoort, 7 -wort, 8–9 sneeze-wort.
[f. sneeze v.]
1. The plant Achillea Ptarmica, bastard or wild pellitory, the dried leaves of which are powdered and used as a sternutatory.
1597Gerarde Herbal 484 The small Sneese woort hath many rounde and brittle braunches... The smell of this plant procureth sneezing. Ibid. 607 Sneesewoort is called of some Ptarmica. 1629Parkinson Parad. 288 We vsually call it double wilde Pelletorie, and some Sneesewort, but Elleborus albus is vsually so called. 1712tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 47 There is also a Pseudopyrethrum which is call'd Ptarmica or Sneezewort which grows in Meadows. 1786Abercrombie Arr. in Gard. Assist. 48 (Ptarmica) or sneeze⁓wort double flowered. 1858R. Hogg Veget. Kingdom 455 Ptarmica vulgaris, or Sneezewort, is also a native of Great Britain. 1901Scotsman 12 Nov. 8/1 The sneezewort is remarkable for its pungent qualities.
attrib.1855Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. III. 323 Sneeze-wort Yarrow. 1861S. Thomson Wild Fl. iii. (ed. 4) 306 The sneeze-wort yarrow (Achillea ptarmica).
2. Applied to other plants:
a. The white hellebore, Veratrum album [cf. neeze-wort].
1629[see 1]. 1671Skinner Etymol. Ling. Angl., Bot., Neese, or Sneese-wort, Helleborus albus. 1799W. Tooke View Russ. Emp. I. 383 Wolf's bane and sneeze-wort [note, Veratrum] are taken against almost all accidents.
b. American sneezewort, Austrian sneezewort (see quots.).
1611[see sneezing vbl. n. 3 b]. 1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 327 Sneeze-wort, Austrian, Xeranthemum. 1846–50A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. 342 Helenium autumnale, American Sneeze-wort. |