"spignel" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈspɪɡnəl/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-AcpoKrane-spignel.wav [Southern-England] Forms: spignels [plural]
Etymology: Either: * an alteration of Middle English spigurnel (“unidentified broomlike flowering plant with medicinal uses”) [and other forms], borrowed from Anglo-Norman spigurnel, spigurnelle, and Anglo-Latin spigurnella, further etymology unknown; or * from spike + nail, because of the shape of its capillary leaves. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|spigurnel|t=unidentified broomlike flowering plant with medicinal uses}} Middle English spigurnel (“unidentified broomlike flowering plant with medicinal uses”), {{nb...|spigernel, spigernell, spigornol, spigurnelle, spikernel, sprigonell, spygernel, spygornoll, spygurnell, spykernell|otherforms=1}} [and other forms], {{der|en|xno|spigurnel}} Anglo-Norman spigurnel, {{m|xno|spigurnelle}} spigurnelle, {{der|en|la|spigurnella}} Latin spigurnella, {{compound|en|spike|nail}} spike + nail, {{nb...|Ltd., 190 Ebury Street, S.W.1}} […] Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} spignel (countable and uncountable, plural spignels)
  1. Meum athamanticum, an ornamental plant in the Apiaceae family found in mountain areas in Central and Western Europe, with roots and feathery leaves used as food and for medicinal purposes. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (lifeform): Celery family plants Synonyms: baldmoney, bear's wort, bearwort, bear-wort, maldmoney, meon, meu, meum
    Sense id: en-spignel-en-noun-QN06U5ky Disambiguation of Celery family plants: 60 20 20 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 65 16 19 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 53 21 26
  2. Preceded by a descriptive word: a plant resembling Meum athamanticum. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-spignel-en-noun-mY5GoZrk
  3. (obsolete) The dried, powdered root of Meum athamanticum used as a cooking spice or a medicine. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable
    Sense id: en-spignel-en-noun-9DXSi2bE
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: spicknel, spikenel, spiknel

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          "Meum athamanticum#Translingual"
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          "ornamental#Adjective"
        ],
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          "plant",
          "plant#Noun"
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          "Apiaceae",
          "Apiaceae#Translingual"
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          "find#Verb"
        ],
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          "area",
          "area"
        ],
        [
          "Central",
          "Central Europe"
        ],
        [
          "Western Europe",
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          "leaf#Noun"
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          "food"
        ],
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          "medicinal#Adjective"
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          "purposes",
          "purpose#Noun"
        ]
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "baldmoney"
        },
        {
          "word": "bear's wort"
        },
        {
          "word": "bearwort"
        },
        {
          "word": "bear-wort"
        },
        {
          "word": "maldmoney"
        },
        {
          "word": "meon"
        },
        {
          "word": "meu"
        },
        {
          "word": "meum"
        }
      ],
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        "countable",
        "uncountable"
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          "ref": "1851, “On the Culture of Carrots”, in The British Farmer’s Magazine, volume XIX, number LVIII (New Series), London: Henry Wright, […], →OCLC, page 482",
          "text": "It [the carrot] is the daucus of botany, and was well known to the Greek writers, but is thought to have been by them confounded with the Cretan spignel, or Candy carrot, which grows abundantly in that island, and of which a species is found on Gog-Magog hills, in Cambridgeshire.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Preceded by a descriptive word: a plant resembling Meum athamanticum."
      ],
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        [
          "resembling",
          "resemble"
        ],
        [
          "Meum athamanticum",
          "Meum athamanticum#Translingual"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1747, “Electuaries. [Theriaca Andromachi. Venice Treacle.]”, in The British Dispensatory, Containing a Faithful Translation of the New London Pharmacopœia, […], London: […] Edward Cave, […], →OCLC, page 105",
          "text": "[G]entian root, celtic ſpikenard, ſpignel, (meum athamanticum) mountain poly leaves, St. John's wort leaves, […] each half an ounce, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The dried, powdered root of Meum athamanticum used as a cooking spice or a medicine."
      ],
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          "dried",
          "dried#Adjective"
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          "powdered",
          "powdered#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "Meum athamanticum",
          "Meum athamanticum#Translingual"
        ],
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          "cooking",
          "cooking#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "spice",
          "spice#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "medicine",
          "medicine"
        ]
      ],
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        "(obsolete) The dried, powdered root of Meum athamanticum used as a cooking spice or a medicine."
      ],
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        "countable",
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ]
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      "ipa": "/ˈspɪɡnəl/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "spicknel"
    },
    {
      "word": "spikenel"
    },
    {
      "word": "spiknel"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Berlin Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum"
  ],
  "word": "spignel"
}

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