olitory

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  1. Producing or used in growing pot-herbs and kitchen vegetables: equivalent to kitchen- or vegetable- in the compounds kitchen-garden, vegetable-garden. Now was publish'd my “French Gardener,” the first and best of the kind that introduc'd y use of the Olitorie garden to any purpose. Evelyn, Diary, Dec. 6, 1658.
  2. A vegetable or other pot-herb of the kinds commonly grown in kitchen-gardens. Pliny indeede enumerates a world of vulgar plants and olitories, but they fall infinitely short of our physic gardens, books, and herbals, every day augmented by our sedulous botanists. Evelyn, To Mr. Wotton.
  3. A kitchen-garden. None of the productions of the olitory affect finery. Hervey, Meditations, I. 79.

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  1. from Latin olitorius, of or belonging to a kitchen-gardener, or to vegetables, from olitor, a kitchen-gardener, from olus, kitchen vegetables, pot-herbs: see oleraceous.
 

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