单词 | chickenweed |
释义 | chickenweedn. 1. Common chickweed, Stellaria media. In early use also (usually with distinguishing word): †any of various other plants related to or thought to resemble this (obsolete). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Caryophyllaceae (chickweeds and allies) > [noun] > chickweeds and stitchworts chicken meateOE bird's-tonguea1300 stitchworta1300 chickenweedc1300 piglea1400 chickweed?a1425 craches1530 mouse-ear1578 all-bony1597 chickenwort1762 Stellaria1785 all bones1787 mouse-eared chickweed1789 cerastium1799 starwort1809 satin flower1836 adder's meat1853 thunder-flower1853 snap-jack1867 shirt button1880 c1300 Bot. Gloss. (BL Add. 15236) l. 311 in Pluteus (1990) 4–5 118 Ypia maior, morsus galine: gallice, morune; anglice, chikenewede. c1450 Practica Phisicalia John of Burgundy in H. Schöffler Mittelengl. Medizinlit. (1919) 231 (MED) For þe cold gowte..chekyn-wede. 1499 Promptorium Parvulorum (Pynson) sig. civ/2 Chekenwede [1440 Harl. 221 Chyn wede, ?a1475 Winch. Chyon wede] herbe, hospia. 1538 W. Turner Libellus de re Herbaria at Asine Chykenwede. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 495 There be fower sorts of Water herbes comprehended vnder the name Anagallis aquatica, or water Pimpernell, or water Chicken weede. 1606 W. Ram Little Dodeon 210 Take Groundswell, Brookelyme, Chicken weede, Dayly, petty morrell, & herbe Bennet. 1769 J. Hill Veg. Syst. XIV. 16 Bristly Chickenweed. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. iv. 45/2 Like a hungry lion invited to a feast of chickenweed. 1901 J. F. McKeon Ormond Idylls 27 The chickenweed flourishes now on the rotting thatch of the once trim Ormond village. 2003 Sunday Mail (Scotland) (Nexis) 15 June I'm being plagued with chicken weed and cannot seem to get rid of it. Can you help? ΚΠ 1861 Trans. Royal Soc. Edinb. 22 139 Imported from Lisbon into Liverpool under the name of ‘Chicken-weed’, for the British Orchill manufacture. 1881 J. M. Nickell Bot. Ready Ref. 81 Lichen Roccella. Archel. Litmus Plant. Cape Weed. Chicken Weed. Chinney Weed... All Bones. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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