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6 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun Eurasian plant having toothed leaves and small two-lipped white or purplish-red flowers
originCalque of Dutch hoenderbeet. By surface analysis, hen + bit (past participle of bite; bitten). First attested in 1578. Cognate with Middle Low German hennebit and German Hühnerbiss; all likely derived from Medieval Latin Morsus gallinae, the ancestor of Italian mordigallina, French morgeline and obsolete English margeline. See also chickweed.
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