woodmarch

English

A woodmarch (Sanicula europaea)

Etymology

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

Noun

woodmarch (plural 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, […]

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