Bot. [a. L. bacc(h)ar, bacc(h)aris (also used in Eng.), a. Gr. βάκκαρις, βάκχαρις (‘a Lydian word’), a plant with an aromatic root yielding oil.] A plant variously identified by botanists. (Baccharis is now applied to an American genus of Compositæ.)
1551. Turner, Herbal (1568), 57 a. Baccharis … in englishe sage of hierusalem.
1601. Holland, Pliny, II. 85. Bacchar is named by some Rustick-Nard.
1616. Surflet & Markh., Countr. Farm, 144. Against the colicke: take Asarum bacchar.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., Baccharis, Bacchar … commonly called plowman’s spikenard.
1855. Singleton, Virgil, I. 27. Her gadding ivies everywhere with baccaris, Shall earth unbosom. Ibid., 47. With baccar binding brow.
