单词 | claytonia |
释义 | claytonian. A plant of a genus of small herbs so called, belonging to the family Portulacaceæ, and native to North America, Siberia, and Australasia; = spring beauty n. at spring n.1 Compounds 3e(c)(i). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > non-British flowers > other non-British flowers Guernsey lily1664 Guernsey flower1677 claytonia1789 Nerine1820 1789 W. Aiton Hortus Kewensis I. 284 Virginian Claytonia... Spear-leav'd Claytonia. Nat. of North America. 1819 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. 2nd Ser. VIII. 168 Among our herbaceous wild plants, the first that appear are the delicate claytonia, the..hepatica [etc.]. 1837 J. Paxton Let. 10 Oct. in W. Baxter Brit. Phænogamous Bot. (1839) IV. pl. 253 I have this morning gathered specimens of Claytonia from the very places in which I originally found it. 1880 Scribner's Monthly May 101/2 A good sample of our native purslane is the Claytonia, or spring beauty. 1934 A. Russell Tramp-royal in Wild Austral. xx. 124 All the best stock-fattening plants peculiar to the region—the two succulent claytonia—the parakylia and munyeroo. 1963 Austral. Encycl. I. 34/1 The dampers form a staple food among inland tribes where several plants, particularly claytonia and nardoo, produce enormous quantities of seeds. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1789 |
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