† culverfootn.
Herbalism. Obsolete.
Dove's-foot, a small species of wild Geranium.
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herb Roberta1300
stick pile?a1450
culverfootc1450
devil's needlea1500
crane's-bill1548
dove's-foot1548
geranium1548
shepherd's needle1562
bloodroot1578
Gratia Dei1578
sanguine root1578
pigeon's-foot1597
Roman cranesbill1648
robin1694
redshanka1722
musk1728
ragged Robert1734
pigeon-foot1736
rose geranium1773
mountain flowera1787
wood cranesbill1796
peppermint-scented geranium1823
stork's bill1824
wild geranium1840
musk geranium1845
pin grass1847
Robert1847
stinking crane's bill1857
mourning widow1866
pinweed1876
ivy-leaved pelargonium1887
ivy-geranium1894
regal1894
peppermint geranium1922
c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 612/40 Sparagus, Colverfot.
c1450 Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.) 140 Pes Columbinus..culverfot [printed clauerfot].
1579 T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things ix. 224 If the Fystula be outwarde, put into it the iuyce of Culuerfoote: for it healeth it.
1879 C. Pickering Chron. Hist. Plants 718.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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