- cockle (n.2)
[cockle 词源字典]
- flowering weed that grows in wheat fields, Old English coccel "darnel," used in Middle English to translate the Bible word now usually given as tares (see tare (n.1)). It is in no other Germanic language and may be from a diminutive of Latin coccus "grain, berry."[cockle etymology, cockle origin, 英语词源]