prickmadam
English
Wikispecies
Etymology
From French trique-madame. Compare tripmadam.
Noun
prickmadam (uncountable)
- (dated) Any of several species of stonecrop, formerly used as ingredients of vermifuge medicines.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for prickmadam in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)