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woodmarch

woodmarch noun: an umbelliferous plant, a species of sanicle (Sanicula europaea).

woodmarch: an umbelliferous plant, a species of sanicle (Sanicula europaea)
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Noun

woodmarch (plural woodmarches)

  1. An umbelliferous plant, a species of sanicle (Sanicula europaea).
    • Let the man who hath ill humours on his neck take halswort and woodmarch and wild chervil and strawberry plants and everthroat, and garclife, and ironhard gathered without use of any iron, and stitchwort, and knee holly and broad bishopwort and brownwort, […]1866, Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England

Forms of woodmarch

pluralwoodmarches

Origin of woodmarch

From Middle English wodemarch, wudemerch, from Old English wudemerċe, wudumerċe, from wude, wudu (“wood”) + merċe, mereċe (a type of aquatic plant), from Proto-Germanic *marikiz (“waterplant, celery, parsley”).

Questions about woodmarch

What does woodmarch mean?
Woodmarch means an umbelliferous plant, a species of sanicle (Sanicula europaea).
What part of speech is woodmarch?
Woodmarch is a noun.
What is the plural of woodmarch?
The plural of woodmarch is woodmarches.

Words near woodmarch in the dictionary

  1. woodmancraft
  2. woodmanlike
  3. Woodmansee
  4. Woodmansees
  5. woodmanship
  6. woodmarch
  7. woodmarches
  8. Woodmason
  9. Woodmass
  10. woodmaster
  11. woodmasters

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