A weed that grows among wheat; tares, darnel; = zizania, n. 1. Also figurative: a pernicious influence or unwanted element; cf. tare, n.1 3.
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释义 | the world > plants > valued plants and weeds > [noun] > weed > tare(s) (6) zizanya1400 A weed that grows among wheat; tares, darnel; = zizania, n. 1. Also figurative: a pernicious influence or unwanted element; cf. tare, n.1 3. taresa1425 plural. Used in the later Wycliffite (or Purvey) version of the New Testament (Matthew xiii. 25), also in some manuscripts of the earlier text, and… titter1573 A kind of weed found in cornfields (perhaps a vetch or tare). furrow-weed1608 a weed that grows on the ‘furrow’ or ploughed land. zizania1756 Botany. An aquatic grass of the genus Zizania; wild rice. Also (in form Zizania): the genus itself. walder1764 Some weed found abundantly in cornfields. |
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