saligotn.
/ˈsalɪɡɒt/ The water-chestnut, Trapa natans. Urquhart (quot. 1653) uses ‘salligots’ to render French tribars (said to mean ‘ragouts of tripe’), evidently because of Cotgrave's ‘Tribule, the water Caltrop, Saligot’.
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1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. lxxii. 535 Theophrast and Dioscorides haue described two kindes of Tribulus, the one of the lande... The other of the water, called Saligot.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 687 [677] The leaues of Saligot be giuen against all inflammations.
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. xxxi. 207 Gallant salligots with garlick [Fr. beaux tribars aux ails].
1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands 56 The Potatoe is a root much like the Saligots growing in Gardens, which are called Topinambous, or Jerusalem Artichokes.
1736 N. Bailey Dict. Domesticum 517 Salligot, or Water Caltrop.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot.
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