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Scurvy grass

noun
1.
A widely distributed Arctic cress reputed to have value in treatment or prevention of scurvy; a concentrated source of vitamin C.  Synonyms: Cochlearia officinalis, common scurvy grass.
2.
Any plant of the genus Barbarea: yellow-flowered Eurasian cresses; widely cultivated for winter salad.  Synonyms: St. Barbara's herb, winter cress.



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... into the sea—a drop of three hundred feet. Beneath was deep water and only an occasional cleft or cranny broke the face of the shining precipice, where green things made shift to live and the gulls built their rough nests with scurvy grass. No sign marked the cliff edge, but beneath, on the green sea, were boats from which fishermen still dredged for the dead. This work, long continued, had yielded ...
— The Red Redmaynes • Eden Phillpotts


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