The common Celandine, Chelidonium majus: so called because supposed to cure tetters.
a. 1400–50. Stockh. Med. MS., 175. Celydonye or teterwort, celidonie.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, I. xx. 31. Called … in English Celandyne, Swallowurte, and of some Tetterwurte.
1640. Parkinson, Theatr. Bot., V. lxx. 618. Tetterwort … the juice often applyed to tetters … will quickly kill their sharpenesse.
1879. Prior, Pop. Names Plants (ed. 3), 235. Tetter-wort, from its curing tetters.
b. In America, The Blood-root, or Red PUCCOON, Sanguinaria canadensis.
1891. in Cent. Dict.
