gromwell

English

Alternative forms

• gromill

Etymology

Called also gromel, grommel, graymill, and gray millet, all probably from French grémil. Compare Welsh cromandi.

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Noun

gromwell (plural gromwells)

1. Lithospermum arvense, a plant of the genus Lithospermum anciently used, because of its stony pericarp, in the cure of kidney stones.

Derived terms

• corn gromwell
• creeping gromwell
• field gromwell
• purple gromwell
• shrubby gromwell

 

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “gromwell”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Translations

Lithospermum arvense

• Bulgarian: птиче просо n (ptiče proso)
• French: grémil des champs m
• Greek:

  Ancient: λιθόσπερμον n (lithóspermon)

• Italian: migliarino (it) m