hog's bean, ˈhog-bean Herb.
a. The Sea Starwort, Aster Tripolium. b. ‘An old name for Globularia’ (Miller Plant-n. 1884). c. A rendering of the word Hyoscyamus.
| 1597 Gerarde Herbal ii. lxxxviii. 334 About Harwich it [Aster Tripolium] is called Hogs beanes, for that the swine doe greatly delight to feede thereon: as also for that the knobs about the rootes do somwhat resemble the Garden Beane. 1611 Cotgr., Turbit,..sea Starrewort, blue Daisie or Camomill, Hogs-beanes. 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Hogs⁓beans, Hogs-bread, and Hogs-fennel, several sorts of Herbs. 1866 Treas. Bot., Hyoscyamus, this name is the Latinised version of the ancient Greek name for the common Henbane, and literally signifies hog-bean. |