Serapiasn.
/səˈreɪpɪas/ Formerly, a book-name for various orchids, and for the dried roots of these as used in pharmacy. Now only modern Latin (Botany) as the name of an orchidaceous genus.
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1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 173 We haue called these kindes, Serapias stones, or Orchis Serapiades,..taking the name as it were from Serapias the god of the Citizens of Alexandria... It is also called..in English Satyrion, and finger Orchis.
1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 1354 The properties of these Serapiaes.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Serapias, (Gr.) an Herb call'd Dog-stones, or Rag-wort.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Serapias, in the materia medica, the officinal name of the dried root, called salep.
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