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Definitions
A low-growing herb (Potentilla erecta, syn.
Potentilla tormentilla).
Word origin
From mediaeval Latin tormentilla (“minor pain”), perhaps referring to the conditions that the plant was used to treat.
Used in a sentence
“Instead of tea, they drink an infusion of the roots of the tormentil (Tormentilla erecta), which, when boiled, dyes the water reddish, gives it a very astringent taste, and is drank without milk.”
“The bracken, waist-high at first, was like small hoops at the top of the wood, where the tiny golden tormentil made a carpet and the yellow pimpernel was closing her eager eyes.”
“The flowers were sparser. Here and there a yellow tormentil showed in the grass, a late harebell or a few shreds of purple bloom on a brown, crisping tuft of self-heal.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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