medick

From Middle English medike, from Latin mēdica, from Ancient Greek μηδίκη (mēdíkē), short for Μηδικὴ πόα (Mēdikḕ póa, “Median grass”);[1] so called because medick was imported from Media to Greece during the Greco-Persian Wars.[2]

medick (usually uncountable, plural medicks)

1. Any of various European and North African herbs, of the genus Medicago, several of which are grown for fodder etc.

• medic

• burclover

medick (not comparable)

1. Obsolete spelling of medic (“medical”)
   • 1743, Martin Marley, The Good Confessor, page 307:

     […] guided not by his own Will, but by the Medick Science, […]