medick

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Etymology 1

From Middle English medike, from Latin mēdica, from Ancient Greek μηδίκη (mēdíkē), short for Μηδικὴ πόα (Mēdikḕ póa, “Median grass”);[1] so called because medick was imported from Media to Greece during the Greco-Persian Wars.[2]

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medick (usually uncountable, plural medicks)

  1. Any of various European and North African herbs, of the genus Medicago, several of which are grown for fodder etc.
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medick (not comparable)

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

References
  1. “medick”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
  2. Pliny the Elder, Historia Naturalis 18.43.144.

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