scurvywort

Etymology

From scurvy + wort.

scurvywort means Scurvy-grass (Cochlearia spp.). Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 85 out of 100.

noun

Scurvy-grass (Cochlearia spp.).“in the kitchen beyond, salad in stacks and faggots: salad of lettuce, salad of cress and endive, salad of boiled coleworts, salad of pickled coleworts, salad of angelica, salad of scurvy-wort, and seven salads more; for potatoes were not as yet, and salads were during eight months of the year the only vegetable.”