centaurea

centaurea [κενταύρειον] , (?) centaury or gentian (dist. as minor and major). ~ea, eorðgealle; ~ea major, curmelle, ‥ ~ea minor banwyrt Ælf. Gl.; ~ia, ‥ hyrd wyrt vel curmelle Gl. Durh.; centaurea tibi notissima, doctor Achillis; / absque Machaonia vulnera sanat ope Neckam DS VII 249; 12‥ ~ia, i. centoire, i. hurdreue WW; ~ea est herba amarissima, calida et sicca et ideo fel terre est vocata. ‥ est autem duplex, sc. major et minor. ‥ radix majoris ‥ habet virtutem conglutinandi Bart. Angl. XVII 47; si cum aqua decoctionis lupinoum vel centaur[ee] mi[noris] vel absin[thii] caput abluatur Gilb. II 81v. 2; fiat clistere de utraque ~ea Gad. 103v. 1; ~ea magna, fel terre idem SB 15; ~ea minor, quam multi limpnesiam dicunt, fel terre idem, unum habet stipitem erectum ‥, florem habet indum ad rubedinem declinantem. ~ea major, quam multi †martam [l. narcam] vel gencianam dicunt ‥, florem habet croceum Alph. 37; hec centaria, centarye WW.

centaurea , eae. f. vel centaureum, ei. n.
vel. Centaureum — i n. 續斷草。

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