α. 1500s allseeds.
β. 1600s– allseed.
单词 | allseed |
释义 | allseedn.α. 1500s allseeds. β. 1600s– allseed. Any of various plants producing large amounts of seed; spec. a. More fully allseed goosefoot. A kind of goosefoot, Chenopodium polyspermum (formerly called Atriplex polysperma). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Chenopodiaccae (goose-foot and allies) > [noun] > goose-foot goose-foot1548 oak of Jerusalem1551 chenopod1555 oak of Paradise1578 stinking motherwort1578 allseed1597 chenopodium1597 good King Harry1597 stinking orach1597 sowbane1657 strawberry blite1753 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. xli. 257 Atriplex syluestris, siue polyspermon. Wild Orach, or all seeds. 1659 R. Lovell Παμβοτανολογια 50 The white blite with much seed, which by some is called all-seed, is a very acceptable baite unto fishes. 1777 S. Robson Brit. Flora 229 Beet Goosefoot. Upright Blite. Allseed. Leaves entire, ovate, stem decumbent, cymes dichotomous, naked, axillary. 1821 S. F. Gray Nat. Arrangem. Brit. Plants II. 286 Wild orach. All-seed. Rubbish and dunghills. 1901 E. D. Marquand Flora Guernsey 157 Chenopodium polyspermum, L. Allseed Goosefoot... Frequent in cultivated fields and gardens in all parts of the island. 1961 E. Salisbury Weeds & Aliens vi. 162 A very distinctive Goosefoot, often common on lighter types of soil, is All Seed (Chenopodium polyspermum). b. A small annual plant, Radiola liniodes (family Linaceae), with narrow, highly-branched stems and inconspicuous flowers, found chiefly in coastal areas of temperate Eurasia. Also called least rupturewort. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > other plants and herbs > [noun] allseed1597 lion's ear1835 Arabidopsis1837 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. clxiii. 454 There is another kinde of Herniaria, called Mille grana, or all seed, that groweth vpright a handfull high, with manie small and tender braunches. 1670 J. Ray Catalogus Plantarum Angliæ 211 Millegrana minima... The least Rupture-wort, or All-seed. 1738 Magna Britannia Antiqua & Nova III. 53/2 Millegrana minima, the least Rupturewort, or All-Seed, on Hounslow-Heath. 1819 J. Dugdale New Brit. Traveller II. 347/1 Linum Radiola. The least Rupture-wort or All-seed; on a boggy soil on Epping Forest, a little way in the wood opposite the Bald-faced Stag. 1887 Proc. & Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow 1 209 Allseed (Radiola millegrana) is..frequent near the coast, but readily overlooked from its inconspicuousness. 1912 Trans. Carlisle Nat. Hist. Soc. 2 82 Speaking of prizes, the next plant I have to refer to, Radiola millegrana, the Allseed, may, I think, be regarded as such by the Cumberland botanist. 2004 D. E. Allen & G. Hatfield Med. Plants in Folk Trad. 172 Radiola linoides Roth. Allseed. Europe, temperate Asia, Macaronesia, mountains of East Africa. c. Any of several plants of the genus Polycarpon (family Caryophyllaceae), comprising small annual weeds found worldwide; esp. (more fully four-leaved allseed) P. tetraphyllum, native chiefly to southern Europe but widely naturalized elsewhere. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Caryophyllaceae (chickweeds and allies) > [noun] > other plants belonging to cow-basil1578 chickweed1597 pink1641 allseed1787 cyphel1787 mouse-ear1799 strapwort1799 1787 W. Withering Bot. Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 2) I. 133 Polycarpon. Allseed. 1836 T. Castle Linnæan Artific. Syst. Bot. ii. 6/2 The Four-leaved All-Seed is another small annual of this country, growing in dry and sandy places. 1903 W. S. Furneaux Sea Shore xvi. 412 On the sandy shores of the south-western counties we may meet with the very local Four-leaved Allseed. 2007 O. F. Clarke et al. Flora Santa Ana River & Environs ix. 117 Polycarpon tetraphyllum (allseed, four-leaved polycarp) is found mostly in disturbed environments. d. The knotgrass, Polygonum aviculare. rare (now historical). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > knot-grass swine's grasslOE bird's-tonguea1300 sparrow's-tonguea1400 corrigiolec1400 swinecress?a1425 knot-grass1538 way-grass1565 centinode1611 pinkweed1657 breadwort1736 stone-weed1847 allseed1855 knotwort1864 wire-weed1864 willow weed1866 knotweed1884 1855 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. II. 318 P. tetraphyllum (Four-leaved All-seed)... The name which it now bears was originally applied to the common Knot-grass (Polygonum aviculare), which it somewhat resembles. 1899 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 10 683 The other species has many names, the most common being All-seed, Knot Grass, and Wire-weed (Polygonum aviculare). 2003 J. Sanders Secrets of Wildflowers 194 This knotweed has many names... It has been called..allseed, because it was, like its cousin buckwheat, used as a grain. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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