scurvywort

English

Etymology

From scurvy +‎ wort.

Noun

scurvywort (uncountable)

1. (now rare) Scurvy-grass (Cochlearia spp.).
   • 1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!:

     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.

   • 1974, Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal, The Summer Book, Sort Of Books, published 2003, page 115:

     The first to come up was the scurvywort, only an inch high, but vital to seamen who live on ship's biscuit.