rampion

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'Ah,' she replied, 'if I can't eat some of the rampion, which is in the garden behind our house, I shall die.'

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  1. noun A biennial Eurasian plant (Campanula rapunculus) having rosette leaves with winged stalks, panicles of lilac-colored flowers, and an edible root used in salads.
  2. noun Any of various similar plants of the genus Phyteuma.

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  1. Probably alteration of French raiponce, from Old French responce, from Old Italian raponzo, probably from rapa, turnip, from Latin rāpum.

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  1. apparently corrupted from Italian ramponzolo, raperonzolo, raperonzo = Spanish reponche, ruiponce = Portuguese raponto, ruiponto = Old French raiponce, reponce, raiponse = Low German rapunsje = German rapunzel = Swedish Danish rapunzel (Middle Latin rapuncium), a plant, the Campanula Rapunculus, also the Phyteuma spicatum, from Middle Latin rapunculus, diminutive of Latin rapa, rapum, a turnip: see rape. For the form, cf. Spanish rampion, a species of lobelia.
 

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/ˈræmpiən/
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