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† ˈspoonwort Bot. Obs. [f. spoon n., after the Latin name or Du. lepelblad, G. löffelkraut.] The common scurvy-grass, Cochlearia officinalis.
1578Lyte Dodoens 117 Spooneworte, at the first his leaves be broade and thicke. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. lxxxii. 323 The common Scuruie grasse or spoonewoort, hath leaues somwhat like a spoone. 1657S. Purchas Pol. Flying-Ins. 94 Bees gather of these flowers following... In March... Spoonwort. 1725Fam. Dict. s.v. Scurvy-Grass, Hence it is that they have had the Latin Name as also that of Spoon⁓wort in English. 1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 328 Spoon⁓wort, Cochlearia. |