† crow-leekn.
Obsolete.
A name given, according to Gerarde and later writers, to the wild hyacinth ( Scilla nutans): by earlier writers sometimes to crow-garlic.
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c1000 Ælfric Gram. (Z.) 311 Hermodactula vel tidolosa crawan leac.
c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 376 Nim..þa wyrt..þæt is on ure geþeoda þæt greata crauleac.
a1400 J. Mirfield Sinonoma Bartholomei (1882) 38 Scordion, allium agreste, florem habet blauum. Similis est allio ortolano, florem habet indum, angl. Crowelek.
c1450 Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.) 177 Scordam, i. alium agreste..angl. wildelek uel crauwelek.
1597 J. Gerard Herball App. Crow leeke is Hyacinthus Anglicus.
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