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† ˈmadnep Obs.
Also -nip.
[f. mad a. (cf. quot. 1686) + nep, nip, neep.]
The Cow Parsnip, Heracleum Sphondylium.
1597Gerarde Herbal ii. ccclxxvii. 856 Spondylium..is called..in English Cow Parsnep, meddowe Parsnep, and Madnepe. 1601Holland Pliny II. 181 Spondylium, a kind of wild Parsnep or Madnep. 1652Culpepper Eng. Physic. 161 The seed of the wilde Parsnipe being ripe about the beginning of August, and if they do flower for seed in the first year of sowing the Countrey people call them ‘Mad⁓neps’. 1686Ray Hist. Plant. I. 410 Nostrates asserunt Pastinacas ipsas vetustiores & annosas delirium..inducere, unde eas Mad-neps..vocant. 1712tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 30 The Peasants call it the Mad Nip. |