Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary

6 plants, trees, botany terms

6 [botany] words
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lemon thyme

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a lemon-scented evergreen mat-forming perennial. There has been a great deal of confusion over the plant's correct name and origin. Recent DNA analysis suggests that it is not a hybrid or cross, but a distinct species as it was first described in 1811. [...]
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I made a shift to creep on all fours, and shelter myself, by lying flat on my face, on the lee-side of a border of lemon-thyme, but so bruised from head to foot, that I could not go abroad in ten days.

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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