bot.common plantain, plant of the genus Plantago:
(
MS: s.xii2
)
[A]ccipe lilie, aloigne, fonuil, viole, plantaine, lancelee, surele dé bois [...]
Pop Med 65.8
(
s.xiii2/3;
MS: s.xiiim
)
Pur cel emflure e dolur De ces treis herbes preng la liqur: De plantoin e de lanceolee, De mirefoil i seit mellee
Nov Chir ANTS 838
(
s.xiii2;
MS: s.xiii2
)
Pren le jus de la sagetterole et le jus de playnteyn et mie de pain batu ensemble, si metez desure, le pastel de herbes desus
Med Pres1 133.6
♦
bot.in reference to a variety of broad-leaved plants, such as bugloss, ox-tongue or arnoglossa, lamb’s tongue:
(
MS: c.1300
)
Arnoglossa: (A1) gallice plantayne
(var. (A3: s.xivin) planteyne; (A7: s.xiii4/4) plaunteyne; (B1: s.xiv1/4) plauntayn)
Plant Names 35-36
(
MS: s.xiii/xiv
) buglossa: (D*) plantayne, manfelun
TLL ii 142.76
plantain (s.xii2)