Meaning of tormentil | Babel Free

Definitions

A low-growing herb (Potentilla erecta, syn. Potentilla tormentilla).

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“Instead of tea, they drink⟳ an infusion of the roots of the tormentil (Tormentilla erecta), which, when boiled, dyes the water reddish, gives it a very astringent taste⟳, and is drank without milk.”

“The bracken, waist-high at first, was like⟳ small hoops at the top of the wood, where the tiny golden tormentil made a carpet and the yellow pimpernel was closing her eager eyes.”

“The flowers were sparser. Here and there a yellow tormentil showed in the grass, a late harebell or a few shreds of purple bloom on a brown, crisping tuft of self-heal.”

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