Originally Posted By: zmjezhd[...
[Addendum: I finally got a chance to look up pissabed in the OED1. Interestingly, there is one citation in 1640, John Parkinson's Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Palnts: "Pisseabed ... is also Crowfoote". Crowfoot is another common name for (wait for it) buttercup.]
" "Pisseabed" word remains alive in Dutch, but not
meaning a flower. Pissebed = woodlouse, the little usefull creepers that help turn the green wastes to compost.

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