behen
See also: běhen
English
editEtymology
editA Medieval Latin transcription of the Arabic بَهْمَن (bahman).
Noun
editbehen (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Any of various plants imported into Europe for the pharmaceutical trade in dried form, so of uncertain identity.
- Behen rubrum or red behen: said in some sources to be Salvia haematodes (now Salvia pratensis subsp. haematodes), but in other sources to be Statice limonium, which is a synonym for Limonium vulgare.
- 1735, John K'Eogh, Botanalogia Universalis Hibernica:
- The roots and seed of red Behen are Styptic, or Restringent […]
- Behen album or white behen: a thistle native to western and central Asia, Centaurea behen
- 1862, American Journal of Pharmacy, volume 34, page 549:
- White Behen is referred by all writers on materia medica to Centaurea Behen L., a plant of Persia and traditionally also of the Lebanon.
- Behen officinarum: Cucubalis behen or Oberna behen, synonyms for Silene vulgaris
- Behen rubrum or red behen: said in some sources to be Salvia haematodes (now Salvia pratensis subsp. haematodes), but in other sources to be Statice limonium, which is a synonym for Limonium vulgare.