单词 | anchusa |
释义 | anchusan. Originally: the plant alkanet, Alkanna tinctoria (family Boraginaceae) or the root of this plant, from which a red dye is obtained (now rare). In later use: any plant of the genus Anchusa, comprising herbaceous plants which resemble alkanet and are typically cultivated for their bright blue flowers. Also (in form Anchusa): the genus itself.Alkanet was formerly included in the genus Anchusa.Cf. alkanet n., bugloss n.Valid publication of the genus name: Linnaeus Species Plantarum (1753) I. 133. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Boraginaceae (bugloss and allies) > [noun] ribeOE hound's-tonguec1000 ox-tonguea1325 rotheren tongue?a1350 buglossa1400 dog's tongue?a1425 lungwort1538 anchusa1548 sheep's tongue1552 cowslip of Jerusalem1578 Our Lady's milkwort1578 pulmonaria1578 sage of Jerusalem1578 wild comfrey1578 maiden-lips1589 bugloss cowslip1597 viper's bugloss1597 viper's herb1597 ribbie1607 lithospermon1646 wall bugloss1650 lady's glove1668 Venus's navelwort1678 spotted comfrey1688 cynogloss1705 Jerusalem sage1736 lawn1778 Mertensia1836 stickseed1843 Virginian cowslip1856 bluebell1858 gooseberry fool1858 Jerusalem cowslip1866 borage-wort1882 echium1883 rose noble1886 milksile- the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants used in dyeing > [noun] > alkanet alcanna?a1425 alkanet?c1425 anchusa1548 orcanet1548 alkany1719 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. A.viij Anchusa groweth in sandy groundes and somtyme amonge the corne wyth a red rose and leaues like Buglos. 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole 252 Anchusa hath diuers names... Some doe call it Fucus herba,..because the roote giuing so deepe a colour, was vsed to dye or paint the skinne. Others call it Buglossum Hispanicum, in English Alkanet, and of some Orchanet. 1751 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. II. 252 The other species of Anchusa are, 1. The borrage-leaved, ever-green Anchusa..5. The little, field Anchusa, called wild Bugloss..and, 15. The yellow-flowered, oriental Anchusa. 1755 R. Goade Boerhaave's Materia Medica 25 Anchusa. Alkanet. A large, long Root of a reddish Colour, brought from Germany, where they cultivate the Plant in Fields for it. 1819 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 109 289 From any of the oils coloured with anchusa root, it receives the tints of the ruby. 1863 W. Darwin Let. 8 May in C. Darwin Corr. (1999) XI. 390 I sent off this morning a box containing two heads of Anchusa. 1999 Guardian 13 Nov. (Weekend Suppl.) 93/2 Tall anchusas of the Anchusa azurea type, are flowering before the end of May and need to be established in good time. 2009 Jrnl. Biogeogr. 36 1282 The present study reveals an Anatolian origin for Anchusa, Borago and Echium and underlines the importance of the Eastern Mediterranean region..for plant evolution in the Mediterranean Basin. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1548 |
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