monk's pepper

English

Etymology

From the cultural notion that monks needed to be chaste, and so (at least, as imagined by users of this word) they may have consumed parts of it as an aid to maintain chastity.

Noun

monk's pepper

  1. The chaste tree.
  2. (chiefly historical, pharmacology) The fruit or another medicinal product of this tree; chasteberry
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