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

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

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

From Wild Life in a Southern County 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

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

These eggs, when taken and the yolk blown out, were strung on a bennet and so carried home.

From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard