agrimony

plural agrimonies

1. Any of several perennial herbaceous plants, of the genus Agrimonia, that have spikes of yellow flowers.

   Right in the middle of the remedies, along with other ministrations to the groin area, was listed the Viagra of the year 1000 - the yellow-flowered herb agrimony.

   1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000, page 126

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   I grant, my Pils are bitter, I, and costly; / But their effects are rare, Diuine, and holsome, […] / I grant, theres bitter Egrimony in vm, / And Antimony, I put mony in all still: / And it works preciously […]

   1620, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, The World Tossed at Tennis, London

   So he put the four shoes in a graceful group on the turf and looked at them. And seeing them there among the grass and springing agrimony, it suddenly occurred to him that both pairs were exceedingly ugly to see.

   1897, H. G. Wells, chapter 9, in The Invisible Man, New York: Pocket Books, published 1957, page 41

2. Any of several not closely related plants of a similar appearance.