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单词 cow-parsnip
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cow-parsnipn.

Etymology: cow n.1 Compounds 3.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: cow-ˈparsnip.
1. A large umbelliferous plant, Heracleum Sphondylium, wild in Britain: so named by Turner.
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1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. G.v Sphondilium..may be called in englishe Cowpersnepe or rough Persnepe. It groweth in watery middowes and in ranke groundes about hedges.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. lxvi. 528 Turner calleth it Cowe Parsnep, or Medo Parsnep.
1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 169 Cowparsnip or Wilde carrat growing in medowes... Some seethe it in drinke with leuen, and vse it instead of ale or beare.
1882 Garden 6 May 306/2 Cow Parsnip..is in no way injurious to animals.
2. Used as a generic name of all species of Heracleum, e.g. American C., H. lanatum, Giant C. of Kamtschatka, H. giganteum, etc.
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1780 W. Coxe Acct. Russ. Discov. 52 There are no trees upon the island; it produces, however, the cow-parsnip which grows at Kamtchatka.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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