betony

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And I've dosed her with betony, and camomile, and comfrey, and bugloss, and hart's tongue, and borage, and mugwort, and dandelion--and twenty herbs beside, for aught I know.

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  1. noun Any of several plants of the widespread genus Stachys in the mint family, especially S. officinalis, native chiefly to Europe and having spikes of usually reddish-purple flowers. It was once popular in herbal medicine. Also called woundwort.
  2. noun The lousewort.

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  • Between this tree and the cluster of trees (in the image below) is a perennial border that is currently filled with florida betony (a friend called today and we discussed ways to market the stuff - if you can't beat 'em, join 'em). —  Tales from the Microbial Laboratory
  • I hadn't looked closely at the garden in a few weeks - yes, I've worked in the garden quite a bit, but I've focused on things like pulling down vines covering the front fence and cursing florida betony and laying down mulching fabric around the vegetable beds. —  Tales from the Microbial Laboratory
  • "I thought to have asked Nora Goldhue for a sprig of betony, or else purslane. —  Our Little Lady Six Hundred Years Ago
  • And I've dosed her with betony, and camomile, and comfrey, and bugloss, and hart's tongue, and borage, and mugwort, and dandelion--and twenty herbs beside, for aught I know. —  All's Well Alice's Victory
  • Some still believe in herbs, and gather wood-betony for herb tea, or eat dandelion leaves between slices of dry toast. —  Highways ; Byways in Sussex
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  1. Middle English, from Old French betoine, from Medieval Latin betōnia, both from Latin vettōnica, probably from Vettōnēs, an ancient Iberian tribe.

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  1. Early modern English also betonie, bettony, etc., from Middle English betony, betany, earlier betone, betan (cf. Middle Latin betonia), from Old French beteine, French bétoine = Provencal Spanish Portuguese Italian betonica = German betonie = Anglo-Saxon betonica, from Latin betonica, a corrupt form of vettonica, so named, according to Pliny, from the Vettones, otherwise Vectones, a people of Lusitania in the Spanish peninsula.
 

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