medick

• medic

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]

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medick (usually uncountable, plural medicks)

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

• burclover

• black medick (Medicago lupulina)
• purple medick (Medicago sativa)
• shield medick (Medicago scutellata)
• sickle medick (Medicago falcata)
• tree medick (Medicago arborea)
• yellow medick (Medicago falcata)

medick (not comparable)

1. Obsolete spelling of medic (“medical”).
   • 1743, Martin Marley, The Good Confessor, page 307:

     […] guided not by his own Will, but by the Medick Science, […]

• Demick