Noun: tormentil
| Singular | tormentil |
| Plural | tormentils |
Sample Sentences
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1615, Helkiah Crooke, Mikrokosmographia, London: William Jaggard, “A Dilucidation or Exposition of the Controuersies concerning the Historie of the Infant,” Question 31, p. 340,
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[…] the hearbe Tormentill which hath seauen leaues resisteth all poysons.
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Instead of tea, they drink an infusion of the roots of the tormentil (Tormentilla erecta), which, when boiled, dyes the water reddish, gives it a very astringent taste, and is drank without milk. [1788, S. Pallas, “Travels through Siberia and Tartary”, in John Trusler, editor, The Habitable World Described, volume 3, London, Part 2, p. 233:]
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The bracken, waist-high at first, was like small hoops at the top of the wood, where the tiny golden tormentil made a carpet and the yellow pimpernel was closing her eager eyes. [1917, Mary Webb, chapter 25, in Gone to Earth, New York: Dutton, page 206:]
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The flowers were sparser. Here and there a yellow tormentil showed in the grass, a late harebell or a few shreds of purple bloom on a brown, crisping tuft of self-heal. [1972, Richard Adams, chapter 50, in Watership Down, London: Macmillan:]
Nouns inflected like tormentil
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From mediaeval Latin tormentilla (“minor pain”), perhaps referring to the conditions that the plant was used to treat. See: Latin Nouns '
tormentilla'.
Verbs referencing "tormentil"
French Nouns
tormentille, Galician Nouns
tormentelo, Portuguese Nouns
tormentelo.