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plural hermodactyls
(obsolete) A type of root, probably from a plant of the genus Colchicum, as imported and used in Western medicine. quotations
[…] turbith, agaric, myrobolanes, hermodactyls, from the East Indies, tobacco from the West […]
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps