Sc. Also carameile. [a. Gael. cairmeal, corra-meille, Ir. cara meala, ‘heath-pea, wild licorice.’] The Heath Pea (Lathyrus macrorrhizus), a leguminous British plant with an edible tuberous root.
1771. Shaw, in Pennant, Tour Scotl. (1769), App. 310 (Jam.). One roo … which we call carmele … grows in heaths and birch woods to the bigness of a large nut … I have often seen it dried, and kept for journeys through hills where no provisions could be had.
1884. Miller, Plant-n., Carameile.
