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单词 setterwort
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setterwortn.

Brit. /ˈsɛtəwəːt/, U.S. /ˈsɛdərwərt/, /ˈsɛdərˌwɔrt/
Forms: Also 1500s syter wurt, 1700s setterworth.
Etymology: Perhaps adopted < Middle Low German; Diefenbach s.v. Elleborum gives a great variety of synonymous forms in Middle High German and Middle Low German such as sitro , sutir- , sittir- , sitti- , siter- , sutten- , -sutwurz , -wort ( < High German wurz , Low German wort wort n.1). The first element is of unknown origin; compare Middle English (14th c .) satur(gresse) settergrass n.
The plant Bear's-foot or Fetid Hellebore, Helleborus fœtidus; also the Green Hellebore, H. viridis.
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1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. L vj The herbe syter wurte.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 124v The hearbe called black Ellebor, of some Bearfoote, of others Setterwort.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 827 Consiligo..is called in English Bearfoote Setterwoort, and Settergrasse.
1713 J. Petiver Catal. Ray's Eng. Herbal Setterwort. Greenish.
1778 G. White Let. 3 July in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 234 Helleborus fœtidus, stinking hellebore, bear's foot, or setterworth.
1907 Daily News 25 Feb. 3 The tender green of the setterwort does not own the power of the frost by a single black spot.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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