medick

Etymology 1

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

noun

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

Etymology 2

adj

  1. Obsolete spelling of medic (“medical”)
    […] guided not by his own Will, but by the Medick Science, […] 1743, Martin Marley, The Good Confessor, page 307

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