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medick

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.01 in modern English

Syllables
medick
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of various European and North African herbs, of the genus Medicago, several of which are grown for fodder etc.

Uncountable

adj

Obsolete spelling of medic (“medical”).

Obsolete

Example Sentences

  • "[…] guided not by his own Will, but by the Medick Science, […]"

Etymology

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

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: medike, mēdica, μηδίκη

Usage

Inflected Forms

medicks (plural) medic (alternative)

Phrases

black medick purple medick shield medick sickle medick tree medick yellow medick

Synonyms

burclover medic trefoil

Questions

What does medick mean?
Any of various European and North African herbs, of the genus Medicago, several of which are grown for fodder etc.
Where does medick come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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