单词 | common southernwood |
释义 | > as lemmascommon southernwood 1. A hardy southern European shrub, Artemisia abrotanum (family Asteraceae ( Compositae)), with distinctively fragrant, finely divided leaves and panicles of yellowish flowers. Also more fully common southernwood, garden southernwood.Formerly cultivated for medicinal purposes, but now more usually grown as an ornamental. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > southernwood southernwoodOE southworta1300 averoynec1350 southernwort1510 sullenwooda1626 boy's love1810 lad's lovea1825 old man1824 α. β. c1225 ( Ælfric Gloss. (Worcester) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 544 Abrotanum, suþerwude [OE St. John's Oxf. suðerne wudu].a1400 Alphita (Selden) (1887) 98 Linerinum, abrotanum idem, gallice, averoyne; anglice, sotherwode.?a1475 Promptorium Parvulorum (Winch.) (1908) 426 Sotherwode, herbe, abrotanum.c1560 (a1500) Squyr Lowe Degre (Copland) l. 33 The sother-wood and sykamoure.1761 T. Percy Let. July in T. Warton Corr. (1995) I. 98 The author has reckoned the lily, the piany, the sother-wood, etc. as trees.OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) cxxxv. 174 Ðeos wyrt þe man abrotanum & oðrum naman suðernewuda nemneþ ys twegea cynna. ?a1300 in S. G. Hamilton Catal. MSS Worcester Cathedral (1906) 184 Abrotonum, souþernewode. a1400 J. Mirfield Sinonoma Bartholomei (1882) 12 Averoyn, southrenwode. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 467/1 Sowtherne woode, herbe,..Abrotonum. ?c1450 in Anglia (1896) 18 295 Aueroyne he take..Queche is callyd soþernwode also. 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. A.iiij Sothernwod is hote and dry in the thirde degree. ?1550 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Healthe sig. X.iiiv Sothernewood & freshe grece..do drawe oute spriges, thornes, and other thinges. 1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia ix. 406 That which Southernwood we call, Whose smoake the serpents so distast. 1671 J. Webster Metallographia xv. 211 Resembling the shrub Southernwood, thick set with little twigs leaning one to another. 1718 J. Quincy Pharmacopœia Officinalis 121 Southern-wood..is now almost out of use in Medicine. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxvi. 389 Southernwood is shrubby, erect, and has setaceous leaves, very much branched. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Mariana in South in Poems (new ed.) 20 Not a breath..moved the dusty southernwood. 1857 A. Henfrey Elem. Course Bot. 320 Artemisia Abrotanum is Garden Southern-wood. 1883 Lancet 20 Oct. 705/1 The common southernwood (Artemisia abrotanum) is reported..to yield a crystallisable alkaloid which he has named ‘abrotine’. 1903 Garden 10 Oct. 248/2 Even in the last century a spray of Southernwood with Rue was always placed by the prisoner in the dock as a preventive against jail fever. 1973 F. A. Boddy Foliage Plants iv. 62 Old world charm and sentimentality can be further satisfied with the grey, feathery, aromatic leaves of Artemisia abrotanum, commonly called southernwood. 2006 I. Pauwels & G. Christoffels Herbs 105/1 Southernwood is not fussy about soil as long as it is dry. < as lemmas |
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