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Wild thyme   /waɪld θaɪm/   Listen
Wild thyme

noun
1.
Aromatic dwarf shrub common on banks and hillsides in Europe; naturalized in United States.  Synonyms: creeping thyme, Thymus serpyllum.






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"Wild thyme" Quotes from Famous Books



... south-west is Merstham, each two miles or so away as the crow flies and something more as the road runs, and each with a railway station. Caterham once was a valley; Aubrey wrote of it: "In this parish are many pleasant little vallies, stored with wild thyme, sweet marjoram, barnell, boscage, and beeches." I do not know barnell, but the last twenty years have set many houses among the boscage. They have built, too, two new churches, one of them set very finely on a hill; the old ...
— Highways and Byways in Surrey • Eric Parker

... wilt thou go To the Lomond wi' me? The wild thyme 's in bloom. And the flower 's on the lea; Wilt thou go my dearest love? I will ever constant prove, I 'll range each hill and grove On the ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volumes I-VI. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various

... took a long walk in the woods. I had succeeded in gathering some labiates, the dead nettle, the pyramidal bell-flower and the wild thyme, when in the midst of my occupation, I heard the trot of a horse. It was he, a bunch of herbs and flowers in his hand. Ivan, who according to his custom, followed him at a distance of ten paces, regarded me some way off with ...
— Stories of Modern French Novels • Julian Hawthorne



Words linked to "Wild thyme" :   thyme



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