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单词 carmele
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carmelen.

Forms: Also 1700s charmele, currymaul, 1800s carameile.
Etymology: < Gaelic cairmeal, corra-meille, Irish cara meala, ‘heath-pea, wild licorice’.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcarmele.
Scottish.
The Heath Pea ( Lathyrus macrorrhizus), a leguminous British plant with an edible tuberous root.
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1760 Pocock Tour Scotl. (1887) 89 They chew the root of an herb called charmele [printed charnicle] a..wild liquorice.
1774 L. Shaw in T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1769 (ed. 3) App. 310 One root..which we call Carmele..grows in heaths and birch woods to the bigness of a large nut... I have often seen it dried, and kept for journeys through hills where no provisions could be had.
1791 ‘T. Newte’ Prospects & Observ. Tour 414 A species of liquorice called currymaul.
1796 T. Gisborne Walks in Forest (ed. 2) i. 16 Thy tuberous roots, Cormeille, famed cure of hunger's gnawing pangs.
1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants Carameile.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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