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Quotation dates: 1896-1897
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¶CORNICK, n. See quot.Gall. a.1897 R. Ringan's Plewman Cracks 22:
The wood-anemone wi' its denty white frock and its potato-like root that we used to grub up and eat—cornicks we used to ca' them in oor schule-days.
[Of uncertain orig. The description does not quite fit the wood-anemone and there may be an error in identification. ? Cf. Corochan. But the pig-nut, Bunium tuberosum, may be intended, Gael., Ir. coirean-muice, id., of which the form may be a corruption.]
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