| 释义 |
† allbone Bot. Obs.|ˈɔːlbəʊn|
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.).
1597Gerard Herbal 43 The Grecians call this plant ὁλόστεον: in Latine Tota ossea: in English All-bonie. 1601Holland Pliny (1634) II. 283 Holosteon; which the Greeks so call by the contrary, for the word signifieth All-bone. |