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单词 squinant
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squinantn.

Forms: Also 1500s squynant, 1500s–1600s squinanth.
Etymology: < medieval Latin squinantus, -anthus, < late Greek σχοίνανθος. So obsolete French squinant, Italian squinante, -anto.
Botany. Obsolete.
= schoenanth n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > fragrant plants or plants used in perfumery > [noun] > lemon-grass
squinant1548
camel's-hay1597
camel's-meat1598
sweet rush1598
schoenanth1633
rusa1783
lemon-grass1837
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1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. D.vij Juncus odoratus sive rotundus, is called in greeke Schenos, in englishe squinant, in duche Kamelhewe.
1562 W. Turner Herball (1568) ii. 24 I neuer sawe squynant growinge, sauinge only dryed.
1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 40 Camels haie is called..in English..Squinant.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Squinant,..the sweet rush, which is very medicinable: Camels meat.
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxxii. 275 There is neither Squinant, Ginger nor Grains in it.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Squinanthus Squinant, a sweet-smelling Arabian Plant, otherwise call'd the sweet Rush and Camel's-Hay.
β. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Squinanth, cammels meate, or sweet rush, which is very medicinable.1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 101 The medicinable vertues of the sweet Rush called Squinanth... Squinanth is round, of an hote and fiery taste.1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Squinanth, a kinde of round rush, which is sweet, and hath flowers very medicinable.
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