lovage

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  1. noun A Mediterranean perennial plant (Levisticum officinale) having edible leaves and leafstalks and small, aromatic, seedlike fruit used as seasoning.

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  • The delegates dined on baked Scottish salmon, Welsh lamb, and something called lovage (see the full menu here), all prepared by Naked Chef Jamie Oliver. —  AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • • The Romans used a tasty combination of egg yolk, olive oil, wine, lovage, black pepper and something called liquamen, a fishy sauce for which you could substitute nam pla. —  The Guardian World News
  • Now lovage is not a particularly ornamental plant-and it gets taller each year for about 3 years until it reaches it's full growth (about 3 feet tall) so consider carefully where you place it so that it doesn't overshadow anything that needs direct sun. —  Frugal Upstate
  • The latest work is the planting of an apple tree, gooseberry and raspberry bushes, rhubarb, lovage, cabbages, sunflowers ... etc.. —  Indymedia Scotland Features RSS Feed
  • Other edible umbels include parsnips, lovage, chervil, dill, sweet cicely, Florence fennel and angelica, cumin, and coriander, whose green leaves we call cilantro. —  The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper
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  1. Middle English, from Anglo-Norman luvesche, from Old English lufestice, from Medieval Latin levistica, from Late Latin levisticum, alteration of Latin ligusticum, from neuter of Ligusticus, Ligurian, from Ligurēs, the Ligurians.

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  1. Also (dial.) loveage, loveache (simulating love), formerly livish; from Middle English loveache (= Dutch lavas), from Old French luvesche, levesche, French livèche = Spanish ligústico = Portuguese ligustico = Italian levistico, libistico (Middle Latin lubesticum, libisticum, levisticum (later Anglo-Saxon lufestice, apparently simulating lufu, love) = Middle Low German lubbestock = Old High German lubestecco, lubistechal, Middle High German lubstickel, lubisteche, lübesteche (simulating Old High German luppi, Middle High German lüppe = Anglo-Saxon lybb, poison), liebstuchel, German liebstöckel (simulating liebe, love) = Polish lubszczyk, lubczyk, lubistek = Bohemian libechek, libchek = Russian lubistokŭ = Lithuanian lipshtukas, lubistos = Lettish lupstaga = Hungarian lestvan, levistikom) (= Turkish logostekon, from Greek λιγυστικόν), from Latin ligusticum, lovage, properly neuter of Ligusticus, belonging to Liguria, from Liguria, Liguria: see Ligusticum, Ligurian.
 

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