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matfellon Obs. exc. dial.|ˈmætfɛlən|
Forms: 4 matfelonn, 5 matefeloun, maidfeloun, matfelon(e, mathfelonn, mattefelon, 6 materfil(l)on, matfillon, matrefillon, 6– matfellon.
[a. OF. matefelon, app. f. mate-r mate v. + felon felon2; named from supposed curative properties.]
= knapweed; also black matfellon.
a1387Sinon. Barthol. (Anecd. Oxon.) 24 Jacia nigra, matfelonn. 14..[see knapweed]. c1450Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.) 83/2 Iacea nigra, mathfelonn. 1483Cath. Angl. 230/2 Mattefelon (MS. A. Matfelone); iacea, herba est. 1578Lyte Dodoens i. lxxiii. 109 The fourth is now called on Shoppes Iacea nigra, and Materfilon: and it hath none other name knowen vnto vs. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. ccxcix. 704. 1640 Parkinson Theat. Bot. 469 We call it in English Bullweede, and Knapweede, as also Matfellon. 1758Mrs. Delany in Life & Corr. (1861) III. 507 Matfellon and figwort flourish here remarkably. 1766Museum Rust. VI. 451 Common, or Black Knapweed, Matfellon, Black Matfellon, or Bulweed. 1829Glover Hist. Derby I. 124 Centaurea Jacea, common knapweed or matfellow [sic]. 1866Treas. Bot. 724/2. |
