bennet

American  

[ben-it] / ˈbɛn ɪt /

noun

1. herb bennet.

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bennet British  

/ ˈbɛnɪt /

noun

1. short for herb bennet

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Etymology

Origin of bennet

1225–75; Middle English ( herbe ) beneit < Old French ( herbe ) beneite, translation of Latin ( herba ) benedicta blessed (herb) (> Old English benedicte, Old High German benedicta, Middle Dutch benedictus-kruid ). See Benedictus

Example Sentences

Then he drew forth a bennet from its sheath, and bit and sucked it till his teeth were green from the sap.

From Wood Magic A Fable by Jefferies, Richard

Everything was motionless under this yellow light, the grass-blades, the moss-blossoms, and the little blue butterflies, and a bumble-bee crawled into the bell of a bennet and hung there as if enchanted.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 by Various

The first bennet is to green things what a swallow is to the breathing creatures of summer.

From The Toilers of the Field by Jefferies, Richard

In it there shone many scores of white cheeses; around them bunches of sage, bennet, cardoon, and wild thyme hung drying, the entire herb apothecary shop of the Seneschal's daughter.

From Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Noyes, George Rapall

He can judge a yard on the grass, because there is something to fix the eye on—the tall bennet or the buttercup yonder; but the water affords no data.

From The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life by Jefferies, Richard