tentwortn.
/ˈtɛntwəːt/ An old name for a small fern, the Wall Rue, Asplenium Ruta-muraria.
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maidenhairc1300
finger fern1548
scale-fern1548
stone-rue1548
wall rue1548
tentwort?1550
ceterach1551
stone-fern1552
English maidenhair1562
male fern1562
miltwaste1578
spleenwort1578
stonewort1585
white maidenhair1597
milt-wort1611
mule's fern1633
rusty-back1776
maidenhair spleenwort1837
sea-spleenwort1850
sea-fern1855
scaly spleenwort1859
black adiantum1866
?1550 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Healthe sig. Y.ii Agaynst the Tertian of yellowe choler..take ye rotes of fennel, parcely, teynt wort, mayden heare, endyue [etc.].
1666 C. Merrett Pinax Rerum Naturalium Britannicarum 2 Adianthum album, sive Ruta muraria, sive Salvia Vitæ, Wall rue, and Tentwort.
1727 C. Threlkeld Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum A ij Our ancestors gave it [the Ruta muraria] the name of Tent-wort, deeming it a sovereign remedy against the..Taint, doubling of the Joints, and in a more general word, Rickets.
1860 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. Tent-wort.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Tentwort.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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