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Gromwell
Grom′well
,Noun.
[Called also
gromel
, grommel
, graymill
, and gray
millet, all prob. fr. F. gr
?mil
, cf. W. cromandi
.] (Bot.)
A plant of the genus
Lithospermum
(L. arvense
), anciently used, because of its stony pericarp, in the cure of gravel. The German gromwell
is the Stellera
. [Written also
gromill
.]