margelineとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

margeline (plural not attested)

1. (obsolete) A type of herb referred to by Pliny as "asyla"; potentially chickweed or ivy-leaved speedwell.
   • 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XXV.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 2nd tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 234:

     sheepe  […] hate and abhor the female Pimpernell  […] : howbeit, in case they should  […] tast the Pimpernell with the blew floure, presently they have recourse (by a naturall instinct) to an hearbe for remedie called in Greeke Asyla, and by us in Latine Ferus oculus, [i. the wild and cruell eye, or Margellane.]

使用する際の注意点

Direct translations in various languages are given in works from the 16th through 18th centuries: Latin asyla or Greek άσυλα (ásyla), Latin Ferus oculus (“wild and cruell eye”), and French mauvais œil.

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