| 单词 | creeping jenny |
| 释义 | > as lemmascreeping Jenny b. In the names of many plants with aerial creeping stems, as creeping ivy (the procumbent form of Hedera Helix), creeping Jack, a local name of Sedum acre, creeping Jenny ( Lysimachia Nummularia, and other plants), creeping sailor ( Saxifraga sarmentosa and Sedum acre), creeping wheat ( Triticum repens), etc.; creeping willow, a shrub, Salix repens, native to Europe and Asia. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] > wheat > types of flaxen wheat?1523 whole wheat1527 tiphe1578 Lammas-wheat1594 frumenty1600 Lammas1677 creeping wheat1819 mummy wheat1842 dinkel1866 marquis1906 durum1908 the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > grasses perceived as weeds > [noun] > couch-grass quitcheOE quicka1400 quicken?c1425 couch-grass1578 twitch1588 twitch grass1588 dog grass1597 sea dog's grass1597 quick grass1617 couch1637 wheat-grass1668 scutch1686 quickenings1762 quicken grass1771 spear-grass1784 squitch1785 witchgrass1790 felt1794 dog-wheat1796 creeping wheat1819 quack1822 switch-grass1840 couch-wheat1884 the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > willow and allies > [noun] > other types of willow red willow1547 water willow1583 goat's willow1597 rose willow1597 sweet willow1597 French willow1601 siler1607 palm-withy1609 sallowie1610 swallowtail willow1626 willow bay1650 black willow1670 crack-willow1670 grey willow1697 water sallow1761 almond willowa1763 swallow-tailed willow1764 swamp willow1765 golden osier1772 golden willow1772 purple willow1773 sand-willow1786 goat willow1787 purple osier1797 whipcord1812 Arctic willow1818 sage-willow1846 pussy willow1851 Kilmarnock willow1854 sweet-bay willow1857 pussy1858 palm willow1869 Spaniard1871 ground-willow1875 Spanish willow1875 snap-willow1880 diamond willow1884 sandbar willow1884 pussy palm1886 creeping willow1894 bat-willow1907 cricket bat willow1907 silver willow1914 1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants (1796) III. 683 Creeping Mouse-ear. Mouse-ear Hawkweed. 1816 P. Keith Syst. Physiol. Bot. I. 45 The common Creeping Cinquefoil. 1819 W. C. Wentworth Statist., Hist., & Polit. Descr. New S. Wales 91 The creeping wheat, however, may be sown in the commencement of February. 1819 W. C. Wentworth Statist., Hist., & Polit. Descr. New S. Wales 92 To the farmer..who keeps large flocks of sheep, the cultivation of the creeping wheat is highly advantageous; since in addition to its yielding as great a crop as any other species of wheat, it supersedes the necessity of growing..food for the support of his stock. 1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. VI. 124 Creeping Wheat, or Couch~grass. 1882 Garden 12 Aug. 138/2 The common Money~wort, or Creeping Jenny as it is called. 1894 W. Robinson Wild Garden (ed. 4) xvi. 262 Dwarf willows..such as the Creeping Willow in its various forms, and the Woolly Willow, a dwarf silvery shrub. 1952 A. G. L. Hellyer Sanders' Encycl. Gardening (ed. 22) 434 [Salix] repens ‘Creeping Willow’, to 3 ft., Britain, Europe, Asia. creeping Jenny 3. creeping Jenny, the plant Lysimachia Nummularia or Moneywort. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Primulaceae family or plants > [noun] herb twopence1548 twopenny grass1548 water pimpernel1575 moneywort1578 pimpernel1633 piss-weed1714 samolus1753 bastard pimpernel1762 chaff-weed1796 pimpernel chaffweed1796 primwort1846 brook weed1861 money plant1873 Wandering Jenny1878 creeping Jenny1882 Wandering Sailor(s1882 1882 Garden 12 Aug. 138/2 The common Money-wort, or Creeping Jenny as it is called. 1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Oct. 3/2 Vases..with fuchsia centres and pendent border of creeping jenny. < as lemmas |
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