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heath-pea
heath-pea (ˈhiːθpiː) Also 8 -pease. A tuberous-rooted leguminous plant, Lathyrus macrorrhizus (Orobus tuberosus), called also carmele. Also heath-peaseling.1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Heath-pease, or Wood-pease, a kind of wild Pease. 1755 Johnson, Heath-peas, a species of bitter Vetch. 1800 Garnett ...
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cormeille
cormeille another form of carmele, the Heath-pea, Lathyrus macrorrhizus.1794 T. Gisborne Walks Forest (1796) 16 Thy tuberous roots, Cormeille, famed cure of hunger's gnawing pangs.
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caperoile
caperoile, -oilie Sc. The Heath-pea (Orobus tuberosus), or carmele.1795 Statist. Acc. Scotl. (Lanark) XV. 8 (Jam.) Carameile or Caperoiles—the root so much used in diet by the ancient Caledonians.
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carmele
ˈcarmele Sc. Also carameile. [a. Gael. cairmeal, corra-meille, Ir. cara meala, ‘heath-pea, wild licorice’.] The Heath Pea (Lathyrus macrorrhizus), a leguminous British plant with an edible tuberous root.1771 Shaw in Pennant Tour Scotl. (1769) App. 310 (Jam.) One root..which we call carmele..grows in...
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mouse-pea
ˈmouse-pea Obs. exc. dial. Forms: 1 m{uacu}sepise, 4 muspese, mous pese, 5 mousepese, 6 mowsepease, 9 dial. moose's, mouse's peas, 9– mouse-pea. The Heath-pea (Lathyrus macrorrhizus); also the Meadow Vetchling (L. pratensis).c 1000 ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 148/35 Uicia, musepise. a 1387 Sinon. B...
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kipper-nut
kipper-nut [Origin unknown. The conjecture of Hempl (Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. America XIV. 455) that kipper is here a variant of pepper, pickle, in sense ‘pungent’, does not seem justified.] 1. = earth-nut 1.1597 Gerarde Herbal ii. ccccxv. 905 Earth Nut, Earth Chestnut, or Kipper Nut. 1611 Cotgr., No...
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pea
▪ I. pea1 (piː) [A new singular evolved from the earlier sing. and pl. pease, by writing this peas and treating the final -s as a plural inflexion. For earlier history see pease.] I. The seed or plant. 1. a. The round seed of Pisum sativum (see 2), a well-known article of food. Also occasionally app...
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pease
▪ I. pease, n. (piːz) Forms: 1 pise, (piose), 1, 4–5 pyse, 4 peose, 4–6 pese, peese, pees, 5 pes, Sc. pess, 5 (6 Sc.) peise, 6 Sc. peis, 6–7 peaze, 5–8 (9 arch.) pease; 6 pees, peas (also 7– in comb., and as pl. of pea1). pl. α. 1 pisan, pysan, 2–6 pesen, 4 peosen, -un, 4–5 pesyn, 5 pesone, 5–6 peso...
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