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▪ I. buck's-horn
An old name for various plants, from the shape of their leaves, or appearance of their branches. a. Senebiera Coronopus, Swine's Cress. b. The Virginia Sumach (Rhus typhina). Also buck's horn plantain, buck's horn weld: species of plantain, weld.
a1450MS. Bodl. 536 (Cockayne Leechd. III. 316), Bukes hornes or els swynes grese (grass) and has leues slaterde as an hertys horne. 1597Gerard Herbal xcvi. §i. 346 Bvckes horne..hath long narrowe hoarie leaues. 1712Petiver Rare Plants §6 in Phil. Trans. XXVII. 424 Virginia Sumach..the first Branches are very soft and velvety, like the Horns of a young Deer, for which reason its call'd Buckshorn by the Country People. 1719London & Wise Compl. Gard. 199 Bucks-horn Sallad is multipli'd only by Seed..Vide Harts-Horn Sallad.
▪ II. buck's-horn
var. of buckhorn. |