Medick

Alternative forms

• medic

Origin

From Middle English medike, from Latin mēdica, from Ancient Greek μηδίκη, short for Μηδικὴ πόα (Mēdikē poa, "Median grass");

OED Online

so called because medick was imported from Media to Greece during the Greco-Persian Wars.

Pliny the Elder, Historia Naturalis .

Noun

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