tormentil

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A low-growing herb (Potentilla erecta, syn. Potentilla tormentilla). countable,uncountable
    — 1615, Helkiah Crooke, Mikrokosmographia, London: William Jaggard, “A Dilucidation or Exposition of the Controuersies concerning the Historie of the Infant,” Question 31, p. 340, […] the hearbe Tormentill which hath seauen leaues resisteth all poysons.

词形变化

tormentils plural

词源

From mediaeval Latin tormentilla (“minor pain”), perhaps referring to the conditions that the plant was used to treat.
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