scurvywort

English

Etymology

From scurvy +‎ wort.

Noun

scurvywort (uncountable)

  1. (now rare) Scurvy-grass.
    • 1855, Charley Kingsley, Westward Ho!:
      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.
    • 1974, Thomas Teal, translating Tove Jansson, The Summer Book, Sort Of Books 2003, p. 115:
      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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