| 单词 | everlasting flower |
| 释义 | > as lemmaseverlasting flower everlasting flower n. any of various plants, chiefly belonging to the family Asteraceae, having papery flower heads which keep their shape and colour when dried; the flower head of such a plant. [Compare French immortelle immortelle n.] ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > composite flowers > everlasting or immortelle yellow amaranth1551 gold-flower1578 mothwort1578 God's flower1597 golden cudweed1597 golden mothwort1597 moth-weed1597 aurelia1598 everlasting flower1610 everlasting1633 helichrysum1664 yellowheads1712 immortal herb1731 xeranthemum1736 eternal flower1785 immortelle1832 strawflower1924 1610 T. Stoughton Dignitie Gods Children xxvi. 306 A kind of flowre, which will neuer wither (like to that amongst vs which is called semper viuens, or the euerlasting flowre, because it being gathered and kept in the house, euer without water..it retaineth the beauty it had at the time of gathering. 1790 Coll. Voy. round World II. i. 391 The everlasting-flower..when it is plucked it cannot be perceived to fade. 1867 M. Arnold Heine's Grave in New Poems 195 Crisp everlasting-flowers, Yellow and black, on the graves. 1913 Indiana (Pa.) Weekly Messenger 12 July Globe, rhodanthe and helichrysum are three good everlasting flowers to plant. 2012 Amer. Biol. Teacher 74 55/1 As we drove along we would see thousands of everlasting flowers growing wild. < as lemmas |
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