† corrigiole Obs. rare.
[a. OF. corrigiole (in Paré) = la renouée, i.e. knotgrass, a. L. *corrigiola, dim. of corrigia thong, shoe-latchet.]
The Knotgrass, Polygonum aviculare.
(Corrigiola is in modern Botany taken as the name of another genus, the Strapwort, family Paronychiaceæ.)
| c 1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 247 Grinde hem sotilly & tempere him wiþ iuys of corigiole & make þerof polottis. 1565 J. Hall Lanfranke's Chirurg., Table 29 Corrigiola, so called of the Apothecaries, and of the Frenche men Corrigiole, is oure common knottgrasse. |