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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[L.

faenum Graecum

, lit., Greek hay: cf. F.

fenugrec

. Cf.

(Bot.)

A plant (

trigonella Fœnum Græcum

) cultivated for its strong-smelling seeds, which are

“now only used for giving false importance to horse medicine and damaged hay.”

J. Smith (Pop. Names of Plants, 1881).

Noun.

[L. faenum graecum.] A plant of the genus Trigonella.