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tormentilla

tormentilla is the archaic form of tormentil.

Meaning of tormentil

Noun

tormentil (countable and uncountable, plural tormentils)

  1. A low-growing herb (Potentilla erecta, syn. Potentilla tormentilla).
    • […] the hearbe Tormentill which hath seauen leaues resisteth all poysons.1615, Helkiah Crooke, Mikrokosmographia, London: William Jaggard, “A Dilucidation or Exposition of the Controuersies concerning the Historie of the Infant,” Question 31, p. 340
    Synonyms:
    shepherd's knot

Forms of tormentilla

pluraltormentillas

Questions about tormentilla

What is tormentilla the archaic form of?
Tormentilla is the archaic form of tormentil.

Words near tormentilla in the dictionary

  1. tormenters
  2. tormentest
  3. tormenteth
  4. tormentful
  5. tormentil
  6. tormentilla
  7. tormentillas
  8. tormentils
  9. tormenting
  10. tormentingly
  11. tormentingness

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