thyme

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  1. noun Any of several aromatic Eurasian herbs or low shrubs of the genus Thymus, especially T. vulgaris, of southern Europe, having small, white to lilac flowers grouped in headlike clusters.
  2. noun The leaves of this plant used as a seasoning.

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  1. Middle English, from Old French thym, from Latin thymum, from Greek thumon.

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  1. Early modern English also thime, time (the spelling with th being in artificial imitation of the L.); from Middle English time, tyme, from Old French thym, French thym = Provencal thimi = Italian timo, from Latin thymum, Middle Latin also thimus, timus, from Greek θύμον, also θύμος, neuter, thyme; prob. connected with θύος, incense, from *θύειν, smell: see thus.
 

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