Bot. Obs. Also 6 squynant, 6–7 squinanth. [ad. med.L. squinantus, -anthus, ad. late Gr. σχοίνανθος. So obs. F. squinant, It. squinante, -anto.] = SCHŒNANTH.

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  α.  1548.  Turner, Names Herbes (E.D.S.), 45. Juncus odoratus sive rotundus, is called in greeke Schenos, in englishe squinant, in duche Kamelhewe. Ibid. (1562), Herbal, II. (1568), 24. I neuer sawe squynant growinge, sauinge only dryed.

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1597.  Gerarde, Herbal, I. xxix. 40. Camels haie is called … in English Camels haie, and Squinant.

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1656.  Blount, Glossogr., Squinant,… the sweet rush, which is very medicinable: Camels meat.

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a. 1693.  Urquhart, Rabelais, III. xxxii. 275. There is neither Squinant, Ginger nor Grains in it.

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1706.  Phillips (ed. Kersey), Squinanthus, Squinant, a sweet-smelling Arabian Plant, otherwise call’d the sweet Rush and Camel’s-Hay.

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  β.  1598.  Florio, Squinance, squinanth, cammels meate, or sweet rush, which is very medicinable.

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1601.  Holland, Pliny, II. 101. The medicinable vertues of the sweet Rush called Squinanth…. Squinanth is round, of an hote and fiery taste.

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1616.  Bullokar, Eng. Exp., Squinanth, a kinde of round rush, which is sweet, and hath flowers very medicinable.

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