spignel
Meanings
noun
- Meum athamanticum, an ornamental plant in the Apiaceae family found in mountain areas in Central and Western Europe, with roots and feathery leaves used as food and for medicinal purposes.
- Preceded by a descriptive word: a plant resembling Meum athamanticum.
- The dried, powdered root of Meum athamanticum used as a cooking spice or a medicine.
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Etymology
Either: * an alteration of Middle English spigurnel (“unidentified broomlike flowering plant with medicinal uses”) [and other forms], borrowed from Anglo-Norman spigurnel, spigurnelle, and Anglo-Latin spigurnella, further etymology unknown; or * from spike + nail, because of the shape of its capillary leaves.
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