stanmarch
English
Etymology
From Middle English stanmarche, from Old English stánmerce, compound of stán (“stone”) + merce (“smallage”).
Noun
stanmarch (uncountable)
- (archaic) Smyrnium olusatrum, alexanders, horse parsley, an herb of the umbellifer family.
- 1877 January 11, Thomas Comber, “The etymology of plant names, Part II. Kitchen-vegetables and salad-plants”, in Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, page 62:
- The A. S. name [mersc] passed into Old Eng. and survived to Turner’s time ; but now occurs only in Stanmarch, which has been transferred from the Parsley to the allied Alexanders, or Horse-parsley (Smyrnium Olusatrum, L.) a plant formerly much cultivated for salads.
- 1897, William Thomas Fernie, Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure, Lettuce, page 313:
- The herb was also known as Stanmarch. It grows on waste places by rivers near the sea, having been formerly cultivated like celery, which has now supplanted it.
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References
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
Anagrams
- Marchants