lovage
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lovage /ˈlʌvɪdʒ/
▶noun a large edible white-flowered plant of the parsley family. [Levisticum officinale (Mediterranean) and other species.]
– origin ME loveache, alt. (as if from love + obs. ache ‘parsley’) of OFr. luvesche, levesche, via late L. levisticum from L. ligusticum, neut. of ligusticus ‘Ligurian’.
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