herb twopence

noun

Moneywort (Lysimachia nummularia).

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Meanings

nounherb twopence (uncountable)
  1. uncountableMoneywort (Lysimachia nummularia).

    Herbe 2 pence

    [1551, William Turner, A new Herball
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    Have you one name? I have many: / “Wandering Sailor”, “Creeping Jenny”, / “Money-wort”, and of the rest / “Strings of Sovereigns” is the best, / (That’s my yellow flowers, you see.) / “Meadow Runagates” is me, / And “Herb Twopence”.

    [1934, Cicely Mary Barker, “The Herb Twopence Fairy”, in A Flower Fairy Alphabet

Origin

Suggested by Maud Grieve to be due to the leaves looking like rows of paired pennies.

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