† aˈlypum, -us Obs.
[for alypon, a. Gr. ἄλῡπον painless.]
An unidentified plant, so called by Dioscorides from its anodyne virtue.
| 1611 Cotgr., Turbit blanc..the reddish hearbe Alypum, or Alypia; talked of, but not otherwise named, by our English Herbarist. 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. ii. iv. ii. i, But these are very gentle, alypus, dragon root, centaury, ditany. |