Bot. Obs. Also all-bonie, all-bones. [ALL- E 5 + BONE: transl. Gr. name ὁλόστεον from the ‘jointed skeleton-like stalks,’ Prior, p. 4, though Pliny, and others after him, thought the name ironical, on principle of lucus a non lucendo.] A name given in the herbals to the Greater Stitchwort (Stellaria Holostea L.).
1597. Gerard, Herbal, 43. The Grecians call this plant ὁλόστεον: in Latine Tota ossea: in English All-bonie.
1601. Holland, Pliny (1634), II. 283. Holosteon; which the Greeks so call by the contrary, for the word signifieth All-bone.
