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- noun botany Any of several
European plants , of the genusCochlearia , formerly believed useful in treating scurvy.
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Examples
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The most arresting of these was a frozen landscape of pebbles with raw shrimps and strewn with wild beach plants such as sea arrowgrass, St. John's wort, Portulak and the unfortunately named scurvy-grass.
Noma's Spectrum of Flavors Bruce Palling 2011
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Lord Keeper, with great reverence, a morning draught in a large pewter cup, garnished with leaves of parsley and scurvy-grass.
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The boats soon procured a load of scurvy-grass and young cocoa-nut trees, which was a feast for the cattle; and the same feast, with the addition of palm cabbage, and the tender branches of the wharra tree, was continued for several days.
Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003
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The boats soon procured a load of scurvy-grass and young cocoa-nut trees, which was a feast for the cattle; and the same feast, with the addition of palm cabbage, and the tender branches of the wharra tree, was continued for several days.
Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003
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Sound, they were plentifully supplied with fish, procured from the natives at a very easy rate; and, besides the vegetables afforded by their own gardens, they every where found plenty of scurvy-grass and celery.
Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003
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Sound, they were plentifully supplied with fish, procured from the natives at a very easy rate; and, besides the vegetables afforded by their own gardens, they every where found plenty of scurvy-grass and celery.
Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003
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Midnight came and went while Harry was reading and rereading a passage about the uses of scurvy-grass, lovage and sneezewort and not taking in a word of it.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Rowling, J. K. 2003
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Spitzbergen, advised his companions to swallow raw and frozen meat in small pieces; to drink the blood of the rein-deer, as it flowed warm from the veins of the animal, and to eat scurvy-grass, although it was not very abundant.
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The island had many mountains and steep rocks of stupendous height, perpetually covered with snow and ice; not a tree nor even the poorest shrub was to be met with; neither is there any vegetable but scurvy-grass, although plenty of moss grows in every part.
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The middle of the island was covered with moss, scurvy-grass, sorrel, and a few ranunculuses then in flower.
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 James Harrison
madmouth commented on the word scurvy-grass
a.k.a. spoonwort
September 21, 2009