Baldmoney

/ˈbɔːldmʌni/ noun

Definition

A plant with small white flowers and feathery leaves, also called spignel or baldmoney saxifrage, historically used in herbal medicine.

Etymology

From 'bald' and 'money,' though the connection is unclear—possibly from the plant's appearance or from folk etymology of a plant name, the original meaning obscured by time.

Kelly Says

Baldmoney is one of those mysterious plant names where nobody's quite sure why it's called that anymore—maybe the seed heads looked bald, maybe it was named after someone, maybe it's a mangled version of an older language entirely!

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