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fluellin

fluellin

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Noun

fluellin (plural fluellins)

  1. (obsolete) Any of various varieties of Veronica, especially Veronica officinalis; speedwell.
    • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged:
      There is another sort of Lluellin which has longer branches wholly trailing upon the ground two or three foot long and sometimes more, thinner set with leaves thereon, upon small footstalks.
    • 1770, Charles Alston, Lectures on the Materia Medica, Lecture LVII:
      Round-leaved female fluellin, or speedwell. It grows among the corn, flowering in July or August, in England.