| 释义 |
honewort|ˈhəʊnwɜːt|
[See quot. 1633.]
A name for Corn Parsley (Petroselinum segetum); also erroneously extended to other umbelliferous plants, as Sison Amomum, Trinia vulgaris, and Cryptotænia canadensis.
1633Johnson Gerarde's Herbal 1018 Of Corne Parsley or Honewort..About the yeere 1625, I saw Mistriss Ursula Leigh..gather it in the wheate ershes about Mapledurham..who told me it was called Honewort, and that her Mother..taught her to use it..for a swelling which shee had in her left cheeke..This swelling her Mother called by the name of a Hone; but asking whether such tumors were in the said Isle [of Wight—where the mother lived]..usually called Hones she could not tell. 1711J. Petiver in Phil. Trans. XXVII. 382 Its lower Leaves like Hone⁓wort, but deeper cut. 1879Britten & Holland Plant-n. |