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

Yet there is a great pleasure in pushing through it, tall grasses and bennets and sorrel stems reaching to the knee—the very dogs delight in it.

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Bevis, with his eyes shut, kept quite still under this luxurious tickling for some time, till Mark, getting tired, put the bennet delicately on his lip, when he started and rubbed his mouth.

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Watch this ant travelling patiently onward, and mark the distance traversed by the milestone of a tall bennet.

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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.

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Lethierry allowed her to soil her fingers a little in gardening, and even in some kind of household duties: she watered her beds of pink hollyhocks, purple foxgloves, perennial phloxes, and scarlet herb bennets.

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