ˈcarmele Sc.
Also carameile.
[a. Gael. cairmeal, corra-meille, Ir. cara meala, ‘heath-pea, wild licorice’.]
The Heath Pea (Lathyrus macrorrhizus), a leguminous British plant with an edible tuberous root.
| 1771 Shaw in Pennant Tour Scotl. (1769) App. 310 (Jam.) One root..which we call carmele..grows in heaths and birch woods to the bigness of a large nut..I have often seen it dried, and kept for journeys through hills where no provisions could be had. 1884 Miller Plant-n., Carameile. |