napel (c.1300)
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napel (c.1300)

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[ FEW: 7,11a napus; Gdf: 5,468b napel; GdfC: ∅; TL: ∅; DEAF: ∅; DMF:  napel; TLF:  napel; OED:  napell, n. / napellus, n. / napelo, n.; MED: ∅; DMLBS: 1883c napellus ]
 

While napel is attested in a number of dictionaries meaning 'aconite, Aconitum napellus, monkshood, wolfsbane', its flowers are not heart-shaped as the first citation mentions, and it may be that the author of Gloss Arab has confused it with another herb.

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1bot.a plant, probably bird's foot trefoil, clover, or alfalfa: 
( c.1300; MS: s.xivm )  Alnefel, c'est une herbe que sa forme resemble a quer d'ome et a nom napel  366.47
( c.1300; MS: s.xivm )  Beeles, che est une herbe qui a non napel et porte venime  370.100
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