单词 | betonies |
释义 | betonies in British Englishplural noun betony betony in British English (ˈbɛtənɪ) nounWord forms: plural -nies 1. a Eurasian plant, Stachys (or Betonica) officinalis, with a spike of reddish-purple flowers, formerly used in medicine and dyeing: family Lamiaceae (labiates) 2. any of several related plants of the genus Stachys 3. wood betony Word origin C14: from Old French betoine, from Latin betonica, variant of vettonica, probably named after the Vettones, an ancient Iberian tribe |
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