| 单词 | common pimpernel |
| 释义 | > as lemmascommon pimpernel a. A small trailing plant, Anagallis arvensis (family Primulaceae), native to Europe but widely distributed elsewhere, which is often found as a weed of cornfields and waste ground and has smooth ovate leaves and usually bright scarlet, pink, blue, or white flowers which close in cloudy or rainy weather (hence its regional names poor man's weatherglass, shepherd's glass, etc.); spec. one with red flowers. Also more fully common pimpernel. Cf. red pimpernel n. at red adj. and n. Compounds 1e(d), scarlet pimpernel n. at scarlet n. and adj. Compounds 2c.† male pimpernel n. Obsolete a red-flowered pimpernel.† female pimpernel n. Obsolete a blue-flowered pimpernel, esp. one of the subspecies A. arvensis subsp. foemina.Red-flowered plants predominate in northern regions, and become rarer southwards towards the Mediterranean, where blue-flowered plants predominate. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > agrimony or lady's mantle or burnet > pimpernel wayworta1300 pimpernel?a1425 sicklewortc1450 craches1530 margeline1572 wink-a-peep1626 shepherd's sun-dial1823 poor man's, or shepherd's, weather-glass1827 shepherd's weatherglass1827 shepherd's calendar1832 scarlet pimpernel1855 shepherd's dial1865 shepherd's clock1878 shepherd's glass1886 peeper1888 shepherd's hourglass1909 ?a1425 (?1373) Lelamour Herbal (1938) f. 64v Ippia Maior, pympirnell, oþer yworte oþer wolshele oþer kennyng worte, goþe alonge by the grounde, and he beryth a rede sangwyne colour and leves leke to chekwede. c1450 in W. R. Dawson Leechbk. (1934) 170 (MED) To knaw the lyue of a woundid man, wheþer he shall leue or dye, take þe rede pympernell and stamp it in a mortere & tamper it with watir or wyne and giffe it to þe woundid man to drynke. 1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. C.iv The male pympernell groweth commonlye in England in the corne and in tylled groundes, and so doth the female growe in Germanye about bon and colon. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. clxxxiii. 493 Pimpernell is like vnto Chickweede; the stalkes are fower square, trailing heere and there vpon the grounde, whereupon do growe broad leaues. 1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) iv. iii. 496 The red and blew Pimpernell, because of their flowers, as also the white, are as good there. 1634 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World (new ed.) I. xxv. xiii. 234 This is strange,..that sheep should so much hate and abhor the female Pimpernell as they do. 1744 Claridge's Shepherd of Banbury's Rules (new ed.) xxii. 38 The Pimpernel..shuts itself up..Close against rainy Weather. 1777 J. Lightfoot Flora Scotica I. 139 [Anagallis arvensis] Common Pimpernel. Anglis. ?1799 Lewis's New Dispensatory (ed. 6) ii. 90/2 Anagallidis arvensis, Lin. Common male and female pimpernel. 1836 J. T. Mackay Flora Hibern. i. 194 Common Pimpernel, or Poor Man's Weatherglass. 1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species viii. 268 The blue and red pimpernel.., which are considered by many of our best botanists as varieties, are said by Gärtner not to be quite fertile when crossed. 1932 A. Bell Cherry Tree xiii. 181 As the tumbril toiled loaded over the stubble-field..pimpernel and late poppy made gay the stark ground. 1995 H. Dunmore Spell of Winter (1996) xxiii. 290 This is our house. I nip off some tiny pimpernel flowers which are growing close to the ground, and spread them out on my lap. < as lemmas |
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