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单词 dropwort
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dropwortn.

Brit. /ˈdrɒpwəːt/, U.S. /ˈdrɑpˌwərt/, /ˈdrɑpˌwɔrt/
Etymology: < drop n. + wort n.1; in reference to Latin name Filipendula, i.e. pendulous threads.
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.
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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.
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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).
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