| 单词 | churchwort |
| 释义 | > as lemmaschurchwort churchwort n. now historical and rare pennyroyal, Mentha pulegium.In quot. 1839 rendering Old English cyric-ragu lichen from a church (i.e. scraped off a church wall). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > pennyroyal pulegeeOE organOE hillwortc1000 pulegiumOE wood-minta1300 puliol royalc1300 churchworta1400 puliol?a1425 pennyroyal1530 pudding grass1538 organy1540 organy1578 a1400 Alphita (Selden) (1887) 130 Origanum, chirchewrt. 1597 J. Gerard Herball App. Churchwort is Penniroyall. 1839 T. Wright Ess. Lit. & Learning under Anglo-Saxons 104 Take thrift grass (?), yarrow, elehtre, betony, penny-grass, carruc, fane, fennel, church-wort, christmas-wort, lovage; make them into a potion with clear ale. 1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 27/1 Church-wort. An old name for Pennyroyal. 1900 A. E. P. Dowling Flora of Sacred Nativity 145 It's potent smell when bruised led to its being employed to strew the path of processions or the pavements of banqueting-halls, etc.,..and hence it was known as ‘Churchwort’. < as lemmas |
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