Meaning of scurvywort | Babel Free

Definitions

Scurvy-grass (Cochlearia spp.).

archaic, uncountable

Examples

“in the kitchen beyond, salad in stacks and faggots: salad of lettuce, salad of cress and endive, salad of boiled coleworts, salad of pickled coleworts, salad of angelica, salad of scurvy-wort, and seven salads more; for potatoes were not as yet, and salads were during eight months of the year the only vegetable.”

“The first to come⟳ up was the scurvywort, only an inch high, but vital to seamen who live⟳ on ship's biscuit.”

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