ˈstandenguss Now dial. (Som.)
[? f. standen pa. pple. (? or standend pres. pple.) of stand v. + *guss a. F. gousse pod. Cf. Eng. dial. gussets, the Orchis mascula.]
= standergrass. (In the 15th c. applied also erroneously to other plants.)
| c 1450 Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.) 140, 158 Stondene-gousse (v.r. -gosse) [glosses pes vituli, pes nisi, satirion]. [1881 Hardwicke's Sci. Gossip Nov. 258/1, I..showed them a flower. ‘Oh’, said they, ‘we call them stannen-gusses.’] |