Obs. Forms: 1 cellendre, 4–5 coliaundre, 5 colyandre, 6 -aundir, colander, -onder, 6–7 coliander. [In OE., cellendre:—*koljandri, ad. pop.L. coliandrum = L. coriandrum CORIANDER: cf. OHG. chullantar, chullintar:—*kuljander. In ME., coliaundre, a. OF. coliandre, repr. same L. form.] = CORIANDER, q.v.
c. 1000. Sax. Leechd., I. 218. ʓenim þas wyrte þe man coliandrum & oðrum naman þam ʓelice cellendre nemneð.
1382. Wyclif, Ex. xvi. 31. As the seed of coliaundre.
c. 1450. Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.), 42. Coriandrum agreste … gall. et angl. coliaundre.
1538. Turner, Libellus, Coriandrum … appellant angli Coryander aut Colander.
1586. Cogan, Haven Health, xxvi. (1636), 46. Coriander commonly called Coliander.
1614. Markham, Cheap Husb., III. xxvii. (1668), 90. The cure of worms in sheep … take the leaves of Coliander.
Abbreviated to col by apothecaries, etc.
1813. in A. Young, Agric. Essex, II. 57. The coriander or col, as some call it.
b. Applied to the Maiden-hair Fern (Adiantum Capillus-Veneris); in full, coliander maidens-hair.
1548. Turner, Names of Herbes, 9 s.v. Adiantum, Adiantum … may be named in englishe Venus heir or Colonder maidens heir [Ibid. (1551), Herbal, I. B iij a. Adiantum hath … leues lyke coriandres greater leues].
1561. Hollybush, Hom. Apoth., 15 b. Mayden heyre called also Colander.
c. Coliander-seed (also fig. in slang: see quot.).
c. 1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Coliander-seed, Money.
1725. in New Cant. Dict.
