meu
(mjuː)
Also 6 mewe, 6– mew.
[irregularly ad. L. mēum.]
= meum2.
| 1548 Turner Names Herbes (1881) 53 Meum..is called of the Poticaries Meu. Ibid., It may be called in englishe mewe or duche Dyl. 1578 Lyte Dodoens iii. xv. 337 Mew groweth plenteously in Macedonia and Spayne. 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Meu or Meum, (Gr.) Mew, Spiknel, wild Dill, an Herb with a Stalk and Leaves like Anis. 1828 J. E. Smith Eng. Flora II. 84 Spignel, Meu, or Bald-money. 1866 Treas. Bot. 740/2 Mew, Meum athamanticum. |