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tormentils

tormentils is the plural 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

Questions about tormentils

What is tormentils the plural of?
Tormentils is the plural of tormentil.

Words near tormentils in the dictionary

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

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