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noun Eurasian perennial herb with white flowers that emit flammable vapor in hot weather
originFrom Old French ditan (French dictame), from Latin dictamnum, from Ancient Greek δίκταμνον (díktamnon), reportedly from Δίκτη (Díktē, “Dicte”), a mountain in Crete on whose slopes the plant grew.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0