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herb Robert [ad. med.L. herba Roberti. The name has been variously supposed to refer to Robert Duke of Normandy, to St. Robert, and to St. Rupert.] The English name for a common wild species of Crane's-bill or Geranium (G. Robertianum), with divided leaves and light reddish purple flowers.
c1265Voc. Plants in Wr.-Wülcker 558/6 Herba Roberti, herbe Robert, chareuille. 1483Cath. Angl. 183/2 Herbe Robert, herba Roberti. 1562Turner Herbal ii. 136. 1578 Lyte Dodoens i. xxxii. 47 The fourth kinde [of Geranium] is called..in English Herbe Robert. 1579Langham Gard. Health (1633) 311 Herbe Robert..stauncheth bloud of greene wounds brused and applyed. 1747Wesley Prim. Physic (1762) 77 Drink Decoction of Herb Robert. 1826K. Digby Broadst. Hon. (1846) II. 364 The herb Robert blooms about the 29th of April, the day of St. Robert founder of the Carthusians. |