| 单词 | flowering ash |
| 释义 | > as lemmasflowering ash c. Often in plant-names; as flowering ash, flowering box, flowering currant, flowering fern, etc. (see the nouns). flowering moss n. U.S. (a) the creeping evergreen plant, Pyxidanthera barbulata; (b) = 2; (c) Sedum pulchellum (Britton & Brown Flora 1896–8). flowering raspberry n. the American species Rubus odoratus. flowering rush n. the Eurasian aquatic plant Butomus umbellatus (family Butomaceae), with sword-shaped leaves and cluters of pink flowers. ΚΠ 1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 27 Water Gladiole is called of L'Obelius, Iuncus Cyperoides floridus paludosus, Flowring Cypresse Rush.] 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. iv. 75 Flowring Rush. Not esteemed for their flowers. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I Butomus, the Flowering Rush or Water Gladiole. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 325 Rush, Lesser flowering, Scheuchzeria. 1858 W. Baird Cycl. Nat. Sci. Butomus umbellatus, the flowering rush, is considered the handsomest herbaceous plant of the British flora. 1914 F. E. Fritsch & E. J. Salisbury Introd. Study Plants xxvi. 329 The more characteristic forms of the Sedge- and Reed-zones are the Iris, Flowering Rush (Butomus), Bur-reed (Sparganium), Water Plantain (Alisma plantago), [etc.]. 1967 S. Marshall Fenland Chron. ii. iv. 195 Then there'd be..yellow water lilies and ‘hen-and-chickens’, the pretty pink clusters of flowering rush. 1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 382/1 Flowering-rush, Butomus umbellatus , is a tall and handsome plant of ditches, fens, reedbeds, the edges of slow-moving rivers, even moats. < as lemmas |
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