| 单词 | fine-leaved marshwort |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfine-leaved marshwort 2. Any of several plants of the genus Apium (family Apiaceae ( Umbelliferae)) ; esp. (a) (more fully procumbent marshwort) A. nodiflorum, a creeping Eurasian and North African plant found beside streams and ponds (also called fool's watercress, lesser water-parsnip); (b) (more fully fine-leaved marshwort, least marshwort, lesser marshwort, etc., marshwort) A. inundatum, a floating or submerged western European plant of shallow ponds and ditches. ΚΠ 1831 W. J. Hooker Brit. Flora (ed. 2) 125 H[elosciadium] nodiflorum, Koch, (procumbent Marsh-wort)... Sides of lakes and rivulets. 1831 W. J. Hooker Brit. Flora (ed. 2) 126 H. inundatum, Koch (least Marsh-wort)... Lakes and pools that are dried up in summer. 1897 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 3rd Ser. 8 617 Procumbent marsh-wort, Helosciadium nodiflorum, is a plant with the habit of watercress. 1922 H. S. Salt Call of Wildflower x. 83 With it [sc. pennyroyal] grows the curious heliosciadium inundatum, or ‘least marsh-wort’, a small umbelliferous plant which has more the habit..of a water crowfoot. 1945 R. S. R. Fitter London's Nat. Hist. ix. 146 Around the first of the Highgate Ponds..such plants as the lesser spearwort (Ranunculus flammula), marsh marigold (Caltha palustris), marsh-wort (Apium nodiflorum)..can still be found. 1956 D. McClintock & R. S. R. Fitter Pocket Guide Wild Flowers 97 Marshwort, A[pium] inundatum... A small, easily overlooked, prostrate hairless aquatic perennial. 1960 S. Ary & M. Gregory Oxf. Bk. Wild Flowers 88/1 Fool's Watercress or Marshwort (Apium nodiflorum). 1960 S. Ary & M. Gregory Oxf. Bk. Wild Flowers 88/2 Fine-leaved Marshwort (Apium inundatum). 1987 W. Scott & R. Palmer Flowering Plants & Ferns of Shetland Islands 35 Lesser marshwort (Apium inundatum) and floating club-rush grow in or by peaty burns at the north end [of Fair Isle]. < as lemmas |
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