ˈmoneywort
[Suggested by the old L. name Nummularia.]
The plant Lysimachia Nummularia or Herb Twopence, which has roundish glossy leaves. Also, a book-name for Anagallis tenella, Sibthorpia europæa (Bastard or Cornish Moneywort), and other plants.
| 1578 Lyte Dodoens i. liii. 78 Monyworte hath small slender stalkes..vpon euery side whereof groweth small rounde leaues..almost like to a penny. 1597 Gerarde Herbal ii. clxxxix. 505. 1756 Watson in Phil. Trans. XLIX. 815 The purple-flowered Moneywort. 1787 Withering Brit. Plants (1796) II. 239 Anagallis tenella... Purple-flowered Money⁓wort. Bog Pimpernel. Ibid. III. 557 Sibthorpia europæa. Bastard Moneywort. 1848 C. A. Johns Week at Lizard 287 Sibthorpia Europæa, Cornish Money-wort,..clothes the sides of every..rill. |