单词 | anthemis |
释义 | anthemisn. Originally: a camomile, esp. Chamaemelum nobile. In later use: any of the aromatic herbaceous plants and subshrubs of (or formerly of) the Eurasian genus Anthemis (family Asteraceae ( Compositae)), having daisy-like inflorescences and finely divided foliage. Also (usually in form Anthemis): the genus itself.The camomile most used by herbalists, Chamaemelum nobile, was included by Linnaeus in the genus Anthemis. The common name camomile is still occasionally used for certain plants of the genus, as in stinking camomile ( Anthemis cotula) and corn camomile ( A. arvensis).Valid publication of the genus name: Linnaeus Species Plantarum (1753) II. 893. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > camomile camomilea1300 whitewort?c1400 camovynec1550 anthemis1551 morgan1669 Roman chamomile1721 ox-eye1731 1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. D.iv Anthemis, otherwyse called Chamemelum, conteyneth vnder it iij. kyndes, whyche only differ in the colour of ye floure. 1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. iv. i. iv. f. 3 The simples Diaphoretik are these. Whote water, whote wyne, Oyles that be whoote in qualitie, anthemis, Linesede Fenegreke, Myntes, [etc.]. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxii. xxi. 125 As touching Anthemis, [i. Camomile], Asclepiades the Physician doth highly praise and commend it. 1664 tr. F. Plater et al. Golden Pract. Physick (new ed.) iii. ii. 220/1 Others give Anthemis in Clysters. 1699 J. Drake & A. Baden tr. D. Le Clerc Hist. Physick iii. xxiv. 328 He prepar'd a drink, in which were five Cantharides without heads, wings, or feet; Water-caltrops, Anthemus, Smallage-seeds, and fifteen dry'd eggs infus'd in sweet Wine. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 321 Ox-eye of old Authors, Anthemis. 1770 Crit. Rev. 30 173 Linnæus makes dog's-camomile a species not of the anthemis, but of the matricaria. 1812 R. J. Thornton Brit. Flora III. 40 The same name [sc. fever-few] in English as is applied to chamomile (anthemis). 1872 H. Clarke New Dict. Eng. Lang. (ed. 7) 274/1 Ox-eye.., a buphthalmum, an anthemis, a chrysanthemum. 1930 Bull. Misc. Information (Royal Bot. Gardens, Kew) No. 2 58 On hilly ground, and over a great extent of the plateaus also, there are mixed associations, with Composites (the genera Senecio, Achillea, Anthemis, Matricaria, Tragopogon, Saussurea, predominating). 1993 Canad. Living May (Insert pp. 88–89) We picked..red bee balm, golden anthemis. 2010 Ideal Home May 165/2 Place the silvery aromatic artemisia and lamb's ear at the front, then add the yellow anthemis at the back. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1551 |
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