Medic
['medɪk] or ['mɛdɪk]
Definition
(noun.) any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves.
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Definition
(n.) A leguminous plant of the genus Medicago. The black medic is the Medicago lupulina; the purple medic, or lucern, is M. sativa.
(a.) Medical.
Typed by Bush
Definition
n. one of several plants of the genus Medicago esp. the purple medic or lucerne—leguminous plants with leaves like those of clover.—Also Med′ick.
Inputed by Logan
Examples
- The Babylonian books of medic ine contained strange interminglings of prescription and incantation. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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