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sow-bread
Also sowbread.
[f. sow n.1 + bread n., after med.L. panis porcinus, or G. saubrot, † säubrot, † sewbrot (Gesner, 1542), older Flem. seugenbrood (Kilian).]
A plant of the genus Cyclamen, esp. C. europæum, the fleshy tuberous root-stocks of which are eaten by swine.
c1550H. Lloyd Treas. Health B vj b, Let the rote of Rape Vyolet or Sowbread be sodden. 1578Lyte Dodoens 330 Sowbread in moyst and stony shadowy places, underneath trees. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. ccxcvi. 694 The common kinde of Sowbread..hath many greene and round leaues. 1651French Distill. ii. 47 Adde..Sowbread, Wormwood. 1660Sharrock Vegetables 27 The seeds of divers sowbreads. a1687A. Behn tr. Cowley's Plants C.'s Wks. 1711 III. 377 The Sow-Bread does afford rich Food for Swine, Physick for Man, and Garlands for the Shrine. 1731Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Cyclamen, It is call'd Sow⁓bread, because the Root is round like a Loaf, and the Sows eat it. 1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 226 The root of the Cyclamen is famous for its acridity; yet this is the principal food of the wild boars of Sicily, whence its common name of Sowbread. 1861Bentley Man. Bot. 605 The Cyclamens are commonly known under the name of Sow-breads.
attrib.1639O. Wood Alph. Bk. Secrets 227 Sowbread root..with honied water, purgeth grosse phlegme and filthy humours.
b. With defining terms, as common sow-bread, ivy-leaved sow-bread, round sow-bread, round-leaved sow-bread.
1578Lyte Dodoens 330 Cyclaminon which we may cal round Sowbread. 1629Parkinson Parad. xxiv. 198 The Common Sowebread is called by most writers in Latine, Panis Porcinus, and by that name it is known in the Apothecaries shops. 1712tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 51 The Root spreads..after the Nature of round Sowbread. 1731Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Cyclamen, Round-leav'd Sow-bread, with Leaves of a purplish Colour underneath. 1858A. Irvine Brit. Plants 408 Cyclamen hederæfolium,..Ivy-leaved Sow-bread. |