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scurvy-grass

noun

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  1. Any of several European plants, of the genus Cochlearia, formerly believed useful in…

    Any of several European plants, of the genus Cochlearia, formerly believed useful in treating scurvy.

    • The seeds of Scurvy-grasse growing in waterpots have been fruitfull in the Land
    • [T]he seed of Scurvy-grass very much resembles the make of a Concha Venerea, a kind of Purcelane Schell […].
    • Knowing that sellery and scurvey grass and other vegetables were to be found in this sound […] , I went myself at day light in the morn in search of some and returned by breakfast with a boat load […] .

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