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Eringo vs Eryngo - What's the difference?

eringo | eryngo |

As nouns the difference between eringo and eryngo

is that eringo is while eryngo is the root of sea holly, (eryngium maritimum), formerly candied and taken as confectionery and held to have aphrodisiac properties.

eringo

English

Noun

(en-noun)

    • eryngo

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The root of sea holly, (Eryngium maritimum), formerly candied and taken as confectionery and held to have aphrodisiac properties.
  • Any other plant of the same genus, Eryngium .
  • *1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays , III.13:
  • *:For some ordinary broths made of Eringos or Sea-Holme, and Burstwort, which twice or thrice I have swallowed downe at the request of some Ladies, who, more kindely then my disease is unkind, offred me the moity of theirs, have equally seemed unto me as easie to take as unprofitable in operation.