hermodactyl
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Medieval Latin hermodactylus, from Ancient Greek ἑρμοδάκτυλος (hermodáktulos, “Hermes's finger”).
Noun[edit]
hermodactyl (plural hermodactyls)
- (obsolete) A type of root, probably from a plant of the genus Colchicum, as imported and used in Western medicine.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, II.4.1.ii:
- […] turbith, agaric, myrobolanes, hermodactyls, from the East Indies, tobacco from the West […]