Meaning of eryngo | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The root of sea holly, Eryngium maritimum, formerly candied and taken as confectionery and held to have aphrodisiac properties.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
2. Any other plant of the same genus, Eryngium.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Let⟳ the skie raine Potatoes: let⟳ it thunder, to the tune⟳ of Greene-ſleeues, haile-kiſſing Comfits, and ſnovv Eringoes: […]”

“For some ordinary broths made of Eringos or Sea-Holme, and Burstwort, which twice or thrice I have⟳ swallowed downe at the request⟳ of some Ladies, who, more kindely then my disease is unkind, offred me the moity of theirs, have⟳ equally seemed unto me as easie to take⟳ as unprofitable in operation.”

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