| 单词 | fairies' horse |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfairies' horse fairies' horse n. Irish English (now historical) ragwort, Jacobaea vulgaris. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > ragwort groundsela700 ragwortc1300 bunweeda1525 senecio1562 St. James's wort1578 rugwort1592 felon-weed1597 staggerwort1597 staverwort1597 yellow-weed1597 ragweed1610 swine's grassa1697 hogs madder1707 sea-ragwort1736 dog standard1767 Jacobaea1789 swinecress1803 benweed1823 fly-dod1826 mountain groundsel1830 cushag1843 fairies' horse1866 Oxford ragwort1884 1866 W. Henderson Notes Folk Lore Northern Counties vi. 190 Witches..love the broom and the thorn, and well as the ragwort, which is called in Ireland the fairies' horse, and use them as means for riding about at midnight. 1889 Pop. Sci. Monthly Apr. 829 The large ragwort—known in Ireland as the 'fairies' horse'—has long been sought for by witches when taking their midnight journeys. 1995 Weed Technol. 9 402/2 Other common English names include stavewort, kettle-dock, felonweed, Fairies' horse, and stinking willy. < as lemmas |
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