α. 1700s–1800s dog's violet.
β. 1800s dog-violet.
单词 | dog violet |
释义 | dog violetn.α. 1700s–1800s dog's violet. β. 1800s dog-violet. Any of several scentless wild violets (genus Viola), now esp. the European species Viola riviniana, with purple or lilac flowers and heart-shaped leaves, found chiefly in woods and grassland. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > pea flowers > violet and allied flowers > allied flowers pansyc1450 heartsease1530 pansy flower1530 three (also two) faces under (or in) a (or one) hood1548 bulbous violet1578 love-in-idleness1578 sweet violet1578 pensea1592 cull-me-to-you1597 dog's tooth violet1597 dog violet1597 kiss-me-ere-I-rise1597 live in idleness1597 wild violet1597 yellow violet1597 love-and-idle1630 love-in-idle1664 trinity1699 fancy1712 wood violet1713 marsh violet1753 tree violet1753 kiss-me-at-the-gate1787 bird's-foot violet1802 Parma violet1812 Johnny-jump-up1827 stepmother1828 Neapolitan violet1830 garden gate1842 butterfly pea1848 kissa1852 pinkany-John1854 viola1871 kiss-me1877 pink-eyed John1877 face and hood1886 roosterhead1894 trout-lily1909 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 700 Viola canina syluestris. Dogs Violets, or wilde Violets. 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire vi. 144 Neither creeping as the common March, nor branched as the common Dog-Violet. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Viola Wild or Dogs Violet. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxvi. 407 Dog Violet, is one of the caulescent or stalky kind. 1801 Withering's Brit. Plants (ed. 4) II. 257 V. canina, Dog's Violet. 1826 W. Scott Woodstock III. iv. 99 Mistress Alice, whom I thought a very snow-drop, turned out a dog-violet! 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 52 The pale dog-violet Late April bears. 1927 Geogr. Jrnl. 69 518 Here were species of ranunculus like the English spearworts, a cardamine like lady's-smock, a viola like the dog violet. 1982 E. Dunlop Maze Stone xiii. 113 They set off, up over the grass dappled with clover, daisies and dog violets. 2001 Times 29 Jan. i. 20/8 Sweet violets..release a delicate scent into the air, unlike the smell-less dog violets that will follow them. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1597 |
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