| 单词 | fool's watercress |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfool's watercress fool's watercress n. an aquatic herbaceous plant, Apium nodiflorum (family Apiaceae), native to western Europe and somewhat resembling watercress; also called fool's cress. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > water-parsley or aquatic umbellifers water parsley1562 marsh parsley1582 hemlock (water) dropwort1597 water parsnip1597 water lovage1633 five-fingered root1747 marshwort1776 fool's watercress1837 sap-wort1844 1837 Ward's Misc. 15 Feb. 98/1 Similar accidents have arisen from mistaking fool's-watercress for the common watercress. 1960 S. Ary & M. Gregory Oxf. Bk. Wild Flowers 88/1 Fool's Watercress or Marshwort (Apium nodiflorum). 2009 D. D. Williams & C. A. Duigan Rivers Wales vi. 82/1 In more base-rich conditions in the lowlands, watercress Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum agg. and fool's watercress Apium nodiflorum are common. fool's watercress 2. Usually with distinguishing word. Any of various other (chiefly cruciferous) plants likened to watercress in appearance, pungency of taste, or semiaquatic habitat, as bittercress, Cardamine amara, and lady's smock, C. pratensis; now esp. (in full yellow watercress) either the common yellow cress, Rorippa palustris or the great yellow cress, R. amphibia; (in full fool's watercress) marshwort, Apium nodiflorum.In early use glossing Latin apium ranarum, a name of uncertain and probably varying application. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Cruciferae (crucifers) > [noun] > other crucifers Raphanusa1398 watercress?a1450 boor's mustard1548 dish-mustard1548 rocket1548 treacle mustard1548 heal-dog1551 Thlaspi1562 candy mustard1597 Grecian mustard1597 Italian rocket1597 knave's mustard1597 madwort1597 mithridate mustard1597 moonwort1597 mithridate1605 wall-rocket1611 broom-wort1614 candytuft1629 draba1629 Turkey cress1633 rock cress1650 shepherd's cress1713 pennycress1714 alyssum1731 arabis1756 tower mustard1760 faverel1770 molewort1770 stinkweed1793 wall cabbage1796 wall-cress1796 awl-wort1797 sickle-pod1846 Kerguelen cabbage1847 sun cress1848 sand rocket1854 wall mustard1904 buckler-mustard- tower-cress- the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > leaf vegetables > cress cressa700 town cresseOE fen-cressc1000 well-cressOE nasturtiumOE watercressc1300 garth-cress?14.. watercress?a1450 women's meadwort?a1450 garden cressa1500 peppergrass?a1500 nosewort1563 nosesmart1589 water-rocket1605 nosewort1608 well grassa1646 cresson1657 water grass1708 tongue-grass1726 poor man's pepper1738 marsh-rocket1739 passerage1879 ?a1450 Agnus Castus (Stockh.) (1950) 131 Apium ranarum. is an herbe. þat men clepe water cresse. 1538 W. Turner Libellus de re Herbaria at Cardamine Water cresses. 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. D.viijv Lauer or Sion is called of some englishe men Bellragges, of other some yealowe watercresses. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. lx. 625 The seconde kinde is called..in Englishe, the lesser Watercresse, and Coccow flowers. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 201 There be sixe kindes of wilde herbes numbred among the water Cresse which followe in order. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 255 The roots..are as effectual in this case as green Lauer [margin] Water cresses. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 581 Sisymbrium sylvestre,..Creeping Water Cress. 1817 A. Eaton Man. Bot. 76 Cardamine..pensylvanica, American water-cress. 1837 Ward's Misc. 1 98/1 Accidents have arisen from mistaking fool's-watercress for the common watercress. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 347 Cress, American Water. Cardamine rotundifolia. 1921 Nature 13 Oct. 206/1 The photographs of a reed swamp on a Norfolk broad and of the great yellow watercress. 1960 S. Ary & M. Gregory Oxf. Bk. Wild Flowers 88/1 Fool's Watercress or Marshwort (Apium nodiflorum). 2000 Britannia 31 102 Fool's watercress (Apium nodiflorum) would have grown in such conditions. < as lemmas |
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