herb Robertn.
The English name for a common wild species of Crane's-bill or Geranium ( G. Robertianum), with divided leaves and light reddish purple flowers.
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herb Roberta1300
stick pile?a1450
culverfootc1450
devil's needlea1500
crane's-bill1548
dove's-foot1548
geranium1548
shepherd's needle1562
bloodroot1578
Gratia Dei1578
sanguine root1578
pigeon's-foot1597
Roman cranesbill1648
robin1694
redshanka1722
musk1728
ragged Robert1734
pigeon-foot1736
rose geranium1773
mountain flowera1787
wood cranesbill1796
peppermint-scented geranium1823
stork's bill1824
wild geranium1840
musk geranium1845
pin grass1847
Robert1847
stinking crane's bill1857
mourning widow1866
pinweed1876
ivy-leaved pelargonium1887
ivy-geranium1894
regal1894
peppermint geranium1922
a1300 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 558/6 Herba Roberti, i. herbe Robert, i. chareuille.
1483 Cath. Angl. 183/2 Herbe Robert, herba Roberti.
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 136
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xxxii. 47 The fourth kinde [of Geranium] is called..in English Herbe Robert.
1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 311 Herbe Robert..stauncheth blood of greene wounds bruised and applied.
1747 J. Wesley Primitive Physick 74 Drink Decoction of Herb Robert.
1828 K. H. Digby Broad Stone of Honour: Tancredus xxi. 369 The herb Robert blooms about the 29th of April, the day of St. Robert, founder of the Carthusians.
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