Obs. rare–1. [app. an altered form of dragonce, one of the 15–17th-c. forms of the plant-name DRAGONS (Arum Dracunculus, now Dracunculus vulgaris); the variation of d and t being due to the confusion between dragontia, -cia, and taragontia, -cia, and the inclusion by 16th-c. herbalists under Δρακοντία, Dracontia, or Dracunculus, of both Dragons (Arum Dracunculus) and Tarragon (Artemisia Dracunculus); an inclusion commemorated in the existing botanical names. See etymological note s.v. TARRAGON.] = DRAGONS (or ? TARRAGON).
1575. Turberv., Venerie, 43. She purgeth hir with the hearbe called Tragonce.
