Now dial. (Som.) [? f. standen pa. pple. (? or standend pres. pple.) of STAND v. + *guss a. F. gousse pod. Cf. Eng. dial. gussets, the Orchis mascula.] = STANDERGRASS. (In the 15th c. applied also erroneously to other plants.)
c. 1450. Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.), 140, 158 Stondene-gousse (v.r. -gosse) [glosses pes vituli, pes nisi, satirion].
[1881. Hardwicke’s Sci. Gossip, Nov., 258/1. I … showed them a flower. ‘Oh,’ said they, ‘we call them stannen-gusses.’]
