[a. F. cameline (in mod.L. camelīna). Littré says ‘the sauce is doubtless named from the plant.’ (It has been conjectured to be a corrupt form of chamælīnum, corresp. to Gr. *χαμαίλινον ‘dwarf flax.’)]

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  1.  A genus of cruciferous plants; spec. the ‘Gold of pleasure’ (Camelina sativa). Also attrib.

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1578.  Lyte, Dodoens, IV. xxxv. 494. The oyle of the seede of Cameline, or Myagrum … doth cleare and polish the skinne from all roughnesse.

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1598.  Florio, Miagro, the herbe Cameline.

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c. 1865.  in Circ. Sc., I. 105/2. Cameline or Dodder oil is extracted from the seeds of the Camelina sativa.

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  2.  ‘A certaine daintie Italian sauce’ (Cotgr.).

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c. 1420.  Liber Cocorum (1862), 30. Þis is sawce fyne, Þat men calles camelyne.

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