Meaning of behen | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any of various plants imported into Europe for the pharmaceutical trade in dried form, so of uncertain identity.
   obsolete, uncountable
2. Behen rubrum or red behen: said in some sources to be Salvia haematodes (now Salvia pratensis subsp. haematodes), but in other sources to be Statice limonium, which is a synonym for Limonium vulgare.
   obsolete, uncountable
3. Behen album or white behen: a thistle native to western and central Asia, Centaurea behen
   obsolete, uncountable
4. Behen officinarum: Cucubalis behen or Oberna behen, synonyms for Silene vulgaris
   obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“The roots and seed of red Behen are Styptic, or Restringent […]”

“White Behen is referred by all writers on materia medica to Centaurea Behen L., a plant of Persia and traditionally also of the Lebanon.”

CEFR level