† ˈperceˌpier Obs.
[a. F. perce-pierre, lit. ‘pierce-stone’, a name of Alchemilla arvensis (and other plants).]
The plant Alchemilla arvensis. (Cf. parsley-piert.)
| 1610 Holland Camden's Brit. i. 237 In the fields..is found Percepier, an herbe peculiar unto England. 1640 [see parsley-piert]. 1658 Phillips, Percepier, a certain Herb, growing in some parts of Somersetshire, it hath small flowrs of a greenish hew, and is good to provoke urine. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 322 Percepier, Aphanes. |