cassabully
A highly localised Cornish dialect word for wintercress (Barbarea vulgaris), the bitter leafy plant eaten as a pot herb or salad green in early spring before other vegetables were available.
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A highly localised Cornish dialect word for wintercress (Barbarea vulgaris), the bitter leafy plant eaten as a pot herb or salad green in early spring before other vegetables were available. The term is now entirely obsolete outside historical records.
The old herbalist kept a patch of cassabully growing by the gate for her winter soups.
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(UK, Cornwall, dialect, obsolete) wintercress.
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