Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Fenugreek

Fenugreek (? o?) , noun

[Latin faenum Graecum, lit., Greek hay: compare French fenugrec. Compare Fennel.]

(Botany) A plant (trigonella Fonum Gracum) cultivated for its strong-smelling seeds, which are
now only used for giving false importance to horse medicine and damaged hay. — J. Smith (Pop. Names of Plants, 1881)