woodmarchとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English wodemarch, wudemerch, from 古期英語 wudemerċe, wudumerċe, from wude, wudu (“wood”) + merċe, mereċe (a type of aquatic plant), from Proto-Germanic *marikiz (“waterplant, celery, parsley”).

名詞

woodmarch (複数形 woodmarches)

1. (botany) An umbelliferous plant, a species of sanicle (Sanicula europaea).
   • 1866, Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England:

     Let the man who hath ill humours on his neck take halswort and woodmarch and wild chervil and strawberry plants and everthroat, and garclife, and ironhard gathered without use of any iron, and stitchwort, and knee holly and broad bishopwort and brownwort, […]