单词 | chickweed wintergreen |
释义 | > as lemmaschickweed wintergreen b. More fully chickweed wintergreen. Any of the plants of the genus Trientalis (family Primulaceae), of boreal regions in Eurasia and North America, with solitary starlike flowers (also called starflower); esp. T. europaea of woodland in Eurasia. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > primrose and allied flowers > allied flowers bear's ear sanicle1597 French cowslip1597 mountain bindweed1597 blue moonwort1629 soldanella1629 chickweed wintergreen1640 primrose1688 Meadia1744 American cowslip1866 wood pimpernel1866 soldanelle1886 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum v. xviii. 510 (heading) Pyrola Europæa Alfines flore. The Winter greene of Europe with Chickeweede flowers. 1789 W. Aiton Hortus Kewensis I. 493 Common Trientalis, or Chickweed Winter-green. 1840 R. Bremner Excursions Denmark I. 370 The Wintergreen (Trientalis Europæa), the loveliest of all the flowers of the northern flora. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1246 In the heather heaths..the ground flora includes hair-grass, cow-wheat, hard-fern, chickweed wintergreen, and Goodyera. 2013 Yorks. Post (Nexis) 1 May But a warming climate is likely to see some species such as cloudberry, chickweed wintergreen and globeflower die out in Yorkshire. < as lemmas |
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