dittandern.
/dɪˈtandə/ ? Obsolete.† 2. Dittany of Crete: = dittany n. 1. Obsolete.
1. A name for Pepperwort, Lepidium latifolium: = dittany n. 4.
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cressa700
pepperworta1500
dittany1548
sciatica cress1562
way-cresses1562
churl's cress1578
churl's mustard1578
dittander1578
cockweed1585
colt1585
green mustard1597
peasant's mustard1597
sciatica grass1597
scar-wort1657
yellow-seed1818
money tree1934
a1300 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 556/34 Diptannum, i. ditaundere.]
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. lxvi. 631 (heading) Of Dittander Dittany, but rather Pepperwurt.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 188 The Englishmen [call it] Dittander, Ditany, and Pepperwoort.
1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ iii. xxii. 419 Piperitis, Λεπιδιον, Dittander.
1832 E. Lankester Veg. Substances Food 195 Dittander..The leaves..are..hot and acrid..whence..the name of ‘poor man's pepper’.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > culinary herbs > dittany of Crete
dittany?a1200
amaracusc1420
dittander1608
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 38 Things that..will likewise defend & keepe vs from venomous creatures, as for example; Sothernwood, Dittander; Fleabane; Calamint.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Dictame de Candie, dittanie of Candia, the right Dittander.
1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Dittany, or Dittander, a herb growing abundantly in Dicte, a Promontory of Creet.
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