medick

English

Alternative forms

• medic

Etymology 1

From Middle English medike, from Latin mēdica, from Ancient Greek μηδίκη (mēdíkē), short for Μηδικὴ πόα (Mēdikḕ póa, “Median grass”); so called because medick was imported from Media to Greece during the Greco-Persian Wars.

Noun

medick (usually uncountable, plural medicks)

1. Any of various European and North African herbs, of the genus Medicago, several of which are grown for fodder etc.

Synonyms

• burclover

Derived terms

• black medick (Medicago lupulina)
• purple medick (Medicago sativa)
• shield medick (Medicago scutellata)
• sickle medick (Medicago falcata)
• tree medick (Medicago arborea)
• yellow medick (Medicago falcata)

Translations

plant of the genus Medicago

• Bulgarian: люцерна (bg) f (ljucerna)
• Catalan: melgó m
• Esperanto: medikago
• Finnish: mailanen (fi)
• Kazakh: жоңышқа (joñyşqa)
• Polish: lucerna (pl) f
• Russian: люце́рна (ru) f (ljucérna)
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: šlinčina f

Etymology 2

Adjective

medick (not comparable)

1. Obsolete spelling of medic (“medical”)
   • 1743, Martin Marley, The Good Confessor, page 307:

     […] guided not by his own Will, but by the Medick Science, […]

Anagrams

• Demick