prangos
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
See also: Prangos
English
[edit]
Etymology
[edit]From the native name in the vicinity of Tibet, northern India, or Pakistan.
This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun
[edit]prangos (plural not attested)
- (botany) Any of the genus Prangos of umbelliferous plants.
- (botany) Prangos pabularia
Translations
[edit]Prangos pabularia
|
References
[edit]- “prangos”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Further reading
[edit]- Encyclopaedia Metropolitana: Squeal-Zyg. (1845, Smedley and Rose): " […] but the most remarkable vegetable found in this region [Tibet] is the Prángós, which grows only in the neighbourhood of Drás, on the Sind'h, a stream which runs into the Lake of Kashmir. It is a new kind of umbellate, called Prangos pabularia, by Professor Lindley, […] "
- George Henderson (M.D.), Allan Octavian Hume (1873) Lahore to Yārkand: Incidents of the Route and Natural History of the Countries Traversed by the Expedition of 1870, Under T. D. Forsyth, page 39: “Below Pandrás the Prangos pabularia, which is called "prangos" in Tibetan, and was once supposed to be a cure for "rot" in sheep, is very abundant.”