acrocorium

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Etymology[edit]

Erroneous reading of cyica, a type of bulbous plant, in Pliny, Naturalis historia, 19.30.95. Attested later as a ghost word in the Glossary of Ælfric of Eynsham (c. 1000), glossed as dille.

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Noun[edit]

acrocorium n (no genitive); second declension

  1. (Medieval Latin, hapax) dill

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