An archaic or dialectal term for a type of plant or herb, possibly related to feverfew or other flowering plants used in traditional medicine.
From Middle English, possibly combining 'flam' (a dialectal word) with 'few' (a variant of feverfew, a medicinal plant). The exact etymology is obscure, and the term appears rarely in historical texts, suggesting it was a regional or folk name for a plant remedy.
Many old English plant names like 'flamfew' have been lost to history because they were regional folk names that never made it into scientific classification, meaning we've forgotten more traditional plant knowledge than we currently use.
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