dog-fennel
Also dog's-fennel.
[From its bad smell, and fennel-like leaves.]
A name for Stinking Camomile, Anthemis Cotula.
| 1523 Fitzherb. Husb. §20 Doggefenell and mathes is bothe one, and..beareth many white floures, with a yelowe sede. 1578 Lyte Dodoens ii. xxx. 186 The second kind..is now called..in English Mathers, Mayweede, Dogges Camomill, Stincking Camomill, and Dogge Fenell. 1885 Harper's Mag. Apr. 702/2 There was no dock, nor dog⁓fennel, nor rag-weed. |
† b. Also applied to Sulphur-wort, Peucedanum palustre. Obs.
| 1529 Grete Herball cccxxx. S v b, Peucedane is an herbe..called dogfenell or swyne fenell. |