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medick

medick

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Noun

medick ‎(plural medicks)

  1. Any of various European and North African herbs, of the genus Medicago, several of which are grown for fodder etc.

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  1. ↑ “medick”, in OED Online, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
  2. ↑ Pliny the Elder, Historia Naturalis 18.43.144.

Etymology

From Middle English medike, from Latin mēdica, from Ancient Greek μηδίκη ‎(mēdíkē), short for Μηδικὴ πόα ‎(Mēdikḕ póa, “Median grass”);[1] so called because medick was imported from Media to Greece during the Greco-Persian Wars.[2]

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