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broomrape|ˈbruːmreɪp|
[A rendering of med.L. Rapum genistæ broom knob or tuber; f. rapum ‘a knob or lump formed by the roots of trees’, and genista broom. The name is therefore not of popular origin.]
A large genus of parasitic herbs (Orobanche), which attach themselves to the roots of broom, furze, clover, and other leguminous plants, having a brownish-yellow leafless fleshy stem furnished with pointed scales or bracts. The name was first applied to O. major, the Rapum genistæ of Lobel and other early herbalists.
1578Lyte Dodoens vi. vi. 664 That excrescence comming from the roote of Broome is called..in Latine Rapum Genistæ, that is to say, Broome Rape, 1671Salmon Syn. Med. iii. xxii. 424 Broom-rape..easeth pains in the Reins. 1711Phil. Trans. XXVII. 345 A large Broom-rape with a purple Flower. 1861Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. III. 120 Brown and leafless parasites, like the Broom-rapes. 1883G. Allen in Knowledge 3 Aug. 65/1 The fat, tuberous stems of the greater broomrape.
attrib.1863M. Plues Wild Flowers 240 The broom⁓rape order..contains but two families, that of the broom rape and the tooth wort. |