tormentilla

tormentilla [CL tormentum+-illa; cf. AN turmentille], kind of low-growing herb with astringent roots, septfoil, common tormentil (Potentilla erecta). b (in gl., ? pl.) kind of nettle. potest fieri levis stupha de foliis ‥ ~e Gilb. I 41v. 1; pulvis ~e et decoctio ejus stringit omnem fluxum curabilem Gad. 6. 2; termentilla est herba similis pentafilon, sed ~a habet pilos, †alio [l. alia] non. florem habet croceum ad modum crucis Alph. 187; distillitur aqua de diptanno, ~a, scabiosa, et pimpernella J. Foxton Cosm. 17. 7. b c1265 dormentille, i. ortie griesche, i. doc-nettle WW.

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