单词 | dropwort |
释义 | dropwortn. A name applied to certain plants having tuberous root-fibres. 1. common dropwort, field dropwort, or mountain dropwort, a plant, Spiræa Filipendula, belonging to the same genus as Meadowsweet, but scentless. Extended, with defining words, to other species of Spiræa. ΚΠ 1538 W. Turner Libellus de re Herbaria at Phellandryon Vulgus Filipendulam, & Droppewort nuncupat. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xxviii. 40 Of filipendula or Dropworte..The rootes be small & blacke, whereon is hanging certaine small knops or blacke pellets, as in the rootes of the female Pionye, sauing yt they be a great deale smaller. 1863 Buckman in Gardeners' Chron. 23 May 493 The Field Dropwort is a denizen for the most part of dry uplands on calcareous soils. 1879 M. Plues Rambles in Search of Wild Flowers (ed. 3) 102 The Willow-leaved Drop-wort (S. salicifolia) is..frequent in shrubberies. 2. A name for species of Œnanthe (esp. Œ. fistulosa), often distinguished as water dropwort, hemlock (water) dropwort, Œ. crocata. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > water-parsley or aquatic umbellifers water parsley1562 marsh parsley1582 hemlock (water) dropwort1597 water parsnip1597 water lovage1633 five-fingered root1747 marshwort1776 fool's watercress1837 sap-wort1844 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > rosaceous plants > [noun] > meadow-sweet or dropwort meadworteOE meadsweeta1400 bridewort?a1450 meadowsweet1530 filipendula1548 goat's beard?1550 dropwort1597 queen of the meadow1597 mock-willow1633 meadow queena1637 queen of the prairie1852 honey-sweet1880 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 900 There be diuers sorts of Dropwoorts, some of the champion or fertill pastures..and some of the water. 1747 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 566/1 4 children had eaten the roots of the Oenanthe aquatica cicutæ facie (hemlock-dropwort). 1835 W. J. Hooker Brit. Flora 131 Oenanthe Water Drop-wort. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1538 |
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