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English
Etymology 1
From Middle English medike, from Latin mēdica, from Ancient Greek μηδίκη (mēdíkē), short for Μηδικὴ πόα (Mēdikḕ póa, “Median grass”);[1] so called because medick was imported from Media to Greece during the Greco-Persian Wars.[2]
Noun
medick (usually uncountable, plural medicks)
- Any of various European and North African herbs, of the genus Medicago, several of which are grown for fodder etc.
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plant of the genus Medicago
Etymology 2
Adjective
medick (not comparable)
- Obsolete spelling of medic (“medical”).
1743, Martin Marley, The Good Confessor, page 307:[…] guided not by his own Will, but by the Medick Science, […]
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