| 单词 | cockscomb sainfoin |
| 释义 | > as lemmascockscomb sainfoin b. In form cockscomb. Any of several sainfoins, genus Onybrychis; esp. O. crista galli, which is native to the Middle East and North Africa (more fully cockscomb sainfoin). Now rare. ΚΠ 1706 G. London & H. Wise Retir'd Gard'ner II. xxi. 781 The Description of Sainfoin... They are leguminous Flowers,..each supported by a hairy Cup, from the Middle of which rises a Style, which in time becomes a Cod, crested like a Cock's-Comb.] 1714 J. Petiver in Philos. Trans. 1713 (Royal Soc.) 28 211 Oriental Cocks-Comb,..Onobrychis Orient. cristata. 1888 Amer. Naturalist 22 430 Onobrychis cristagalli... The hedgehog or cockscomb sanfoin. 1982 M. Evenari et al. Negev (ed. 2) xii. 189 Cockscomb (Onobrychis squarrosa). < as lemmas |
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