Savin vs Spavin - What's the difference?
savin | spavin |
The evergreen shrub , endemic to Europe, which yields a medicinal oil.
The poisonous dried tips of this plant, with anthelmintic properties, used as a drug.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:
The eastern red cedar, Juniperus virginiana .
A disease of horses characterized by a bony swelling developed on the hock as the result of inflammation of the bones.
* 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter XII
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As nouns the difference between savin and spavin
is that savin is the evergreen shrub species: Juniperus sabina, endemic to Europe, which yields a medicinal oil while spavin is a disease of horses characterized by a bony swelling developed on the hock as the result of inflammation of the bones.savin
English
(wikipedia savin) (Juniperus sabina) (Juniperus virginiana)Noun
(en noun)- th'aged Nurse her calling to her bowre, / Had gathered Rew, and Sauine , and the flowre / Of Camphara, and Calamint, and Dill, / All which she in a earthen Pot did poure [...].