baldmoney

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baldmoney

/ˈbɔːldˌmʌni/

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Apparently a corruption of Latin valdē bona (“very good”) (a plant mentioned in Leonhart Fuchs's Great Herbal). Earliest forms seem to come from an intermediate, unattested French form baudemoine (modern French baudremoine) and by analogy to the plant name agrimony.

noun bald-money · bawd money · bawd-money · baldmoyne · bald-moyne

uncountable Meum athamanticum, an ornamental plant in the Apiaceae family.
Similar: meu, meon, meum, spignel, bearwort
obsolete, uncountable A Gentianeae tribe plant, gentian or felwort. Gentius king of Illyria was the first founder of this herbe, and the first that used it in medicine, for which cause it was called Gentian after his own name: in Greek, γεντιανή, which name also the apothecaries retaine unto this daie, and call it Gentiana: it is named in English Felwoort Gentian; B

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noun Meum athamanticum

Français	baudremoine, fenouil de montagne, fenouil des Alpes, cerfeuil des Alpes, méum
Deutsch	Bärwurz
Italiano	finocchio delle Alpi, finocchio alpino, finocchiella
Română	brie
العربية	مُو mū, شِبِتّ بَرِّيّ šibitt barriyy

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@misc{baldmoney_2026,
  title = {baldmoney},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/baldmoney},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}