单词 | eyebright cow-wheat |
释义 | > as lemmaseyebright cow-wheat eyebright cow-wheat n. now rare either of two plants of the family Orobanchaceae, red bartsia, Odontites vernus, and yellow bartsia, Parentucellia viscosa (cf. sense 1b). ΚΠ 1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 85 Eiebright Cow wheate. 1684 R. Sibbald Scotl. Illustr. i. ii. v. 23 Euphrasia pratensis rubra, B. P. Parva purpurea Eye-bright Cow-wheat. In pratis. 1738 Magna Britannia Antiqua & Nova (new ed.) IV. 36/1 Crataogonon foliis brevibus obtusis, Eyebright Cow-wheat with short blunt Leaves; near Orton on the Side of a Brook. 1776 W. Withering Bot. Arrangem. Veg. Great Brit. I. 369 Marsh Eyebright Cow-wheat. Boggy wet places in Cornwall. 1819 J. Dugdale New Brit. Traveller III. 276/1 (note) Bartisia [sic] viscosa, Marsh Eyebright Cow Wheat; in bogs about Latham, near Ormskirk. 1863 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants 76 Eyebright Cow-wheat, a plant in some respects resembling both the eyebright and the cow-wheat, Bartsia Odontites, Hud. 1907 J. F. Chanter Hist. Lynton & Countisbury viii. 144 Odontites rubra (Gilib.)... Red Bartsia, or Eyebright Cow-wheat. 1920 W. E. Brenchley Weeds of Farm Land xiii. 208 Bartsia odontites, L.—Eyebright, eyebright cow-wheat, hen gorse, red rattle, sanctuary. < as lemmas |
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