| 单词 | common myrtle |
| 释义 | > as lemmascommon myrtle a. Any of various evergreen shrubs or small trees of the genus Myrtus (family Myrtaceae) or formerly included in it; esp. (more fully common myrtle) M. communis, of the Mediterranean region, which has shiny, dark green, leathery, toothless, aromatic leaves and fragrant white flowers, and which is often grown for ornament or for its fragrance. Also, with distinguishing word: any of various varieties of myrtle, esp. the common myrtle.The myrtle was held sacred to the goddess Venus and used as an emblem of love: cf. sense 3. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > myrtles > [noun] myrt?a1200 myrt-treea1382 mirtusc1384 myrtine?a1450 myrtle tree1548 myrtle1562 nerte1585 Australian tea1728 Bencoolen tea1728 New Zealand tea1728 Scotch gale1795 Callistemon1814 manuka1832 myrtal1846 mangrove-myrtle1847 swamp tea tree1862 lid-flower1866 Barringtonia1871 tea-broom1872 kanuka1906 myrtle-of-the-river1919 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 60v Dioscorides maketh ii. sortes of sowen or set myrtel trees... But other writers make yet mo kyndes of Myrtilles. 1593 E. Spenser Elegie in Phœnix Nest 1 Alcides speckled poplar tree..And Phillis philbert there away, Comparde with mirtle and the bay. 1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1226 Another kinde of Myrtill, called Myrtus minor, or noble Myrtill. 1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xli. 19 I will plant in the wildernes..the Myrtle, and the Oyle tree. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 262 The fringed Bank with Myrtle crownd. View more context for this quotation 1724 J. Henley et al. tr. Pliny the Younger Epist. & Panegyrick I. v. vi. 220 The Soil will not favour the Myrtle, the Olive, and other Plants, that love a constant Warmth. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Myrtus The broad-leaved Roman Myrtle. 1768 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) II. ii. 255 Myrtles flourish in the open air during the whole year. 1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 570 The spiry myrtle with unwith'ring leaf. 1846 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 737 Even the berries of the common Myrtle are esteemed in the Greek Archipelago, especially a sort with white fruit. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Islet 19 Fairily-delicate palaces shine Mixt with myrtle and clad with vine. 1904 E. Wharton Ital. Villas vi. 214 The box-parterres have been replaced by star-shaped beds of begonias and cinerarias, and the groves of laurel and myrtle by thickets of pampas-grass and bamboo. 1956 G. Durrell My Family & other Animals (1959) iii. 42 A maze of blackbird-haunted myrtles. 1973 W. J. Bean Trees & Shrubs Hardy in Brit. Isles (ed. 8) II. 763 Myrtus x ralphii..Described by J. D. Hooker as a species near to M. bullata, this myrtle is now considered to be a variable natural hybrid between that species and M. abcordata. 1992 Holiday Which? May 142/2 The Galluran interior is studded with craggy, jagged mountains carpeted in an impenetrable blanket of gorse, juniper, thyme and myrtle. < as lemmas |
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