Scurvywort

scurvywort

1. (now rare) Scurvy-grass.
• 1855, Charley Kingsley, Westward Ho!:in the kitchen beyond, salad in stacks and faggots: salad of lettuce, salad of cress and endive, salad of boiled coleworts, salad of pickled coleworts, salad of angelica, salad of scurvy-wort, and seven salads more; for potatoes were not as yet, and salads were during eight months of the year the only vegetable.
• 1974, Thomas Teal, translating Tove Jansson, The Summer Book, Sort Of Books 2003, p. 115:The first to come up was the scurvywort, only an inch high, but vital to seamen who live on ship's biscuit.