‖ Poterium Bot.
(pəʊˈtɪərɪəm)
[L. potērium, a. Gr. ποτήριον drinking-cup, wine-cup; also, name of a shrub. (The mod. application is said in Treas. Bot. to refer to the use of the Salad Burnet in flavouring Cool tankard.)]
A genus of herbaceous plants of family Rosaceæ; Salad Burnet.
| 1597 Gerarde Herbal iii. xxiii. 1148, I haue sowen the seede of Poterion in April which I receiued.., that grew in my garden two yeres togither, and after perished by some mischance. 1706 Phillips, Poterium,..a sort of Thistle. 1753 Chambers Cycl. Supp., Poterium, a word used by many for the prickly pimpernell. |