tetterwort
(ˈtɛtəwɜːt)
The common Celandine, Chelidonium majus: so called because supposed to cure tetters.
| a 1400–50 Stockh. Med. MS. 175 Celydonye or teterwort, celidonie. 1578 Lyte Dodoens i. xx. 31 Called..in English Celandyne, Swallowurte, and of some Tetterwurte. 1640 Parkinson Theatr. Bot. v. lxx. 618 Tetterwort..the juice often applyed to tetters..will quickly kill their sharpenesse. 1879 Prior Pop. Names Plants (ed. 3) 235 Tetter-wort, from its curing tetters. |
b. In America, The Blood-root, or Red puccoon, Sanguinaria canadensis.
| 1891 in Cent. Dict. |