| 单词 | garden balsam |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgarden balsam garden balsam n. †(a) blue fenugreek, Trigonella caerulea (obsolete); (b) an annual flowering plant, Impatiens balsamina (family Balsaminaceae), native to South-East Asia and widely cultivated as a garden plant, having thick, soft stems, serrated leaves, and pink, red, purple, white, or variegated flowers; cf. balsam n. 8. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > clover or trefoil white clovereOE cloverc1000 hare-foota1300 clerewort?a1400 clover-grassa1400 three-leaved grass14.. trefoilc1400 sucklingc1440 four-leaved grassc1450 trefle1510 Trifolium?1541 trinity grass1545 Dutch1548 lote1548 hare's-foot1562 lotus1562 triple grass1562 blain-grass1570 meadow trefoil1578 purple grass1597 purplewort1597 satin flower1597 cithyse1620 true-love grass?a1629 garden balsam1633 hop-clover1679 Burgundian hay1712 strawberry trefoil1731 honeysuckle trefoil1735 red clover1764 buffalo-clover1767 marl-grass1776 purple trefoil1785 white trefoil1785 yellow trefoil1785 sulla1787 cow-grass1789 strawberry-bearing trefoil1796 zigzag trefoil1796 rabbit's foot1817 lotus grass1820 strawberry-headed trefoil1822 mountain liquorice1836 hop-trefoil1855 clustered clover1858 alsike1881 mountain clover1882 knop1897 Swedish clover1908 sub clover1920 four-leaf clover1927 suckle- 1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) ii. 1195 The Gardiners and herbe women in Cheapside commonly call it [sc. Trifolium odoratum], and know it by the name of Balsam, or garden Balsam. 1789 J. Miller Illustr. Sexual Syst. Linnæus II. 80 Impatiens Balsamina. Garden Balsam. 1879 S. Hibberd Familiar Garden Flowers 73 The garden balsam is a tender annual of rapid growth..with showy flowers of various shades of white, red, rose, and crimson. 1961 Plant Physiol. 36 1/2 Plants of the garden balsam (Impatiens balsamina L.) were grown in the greenhouse in gravel with daily watering. 2003 C. Harstad Got Shade? xiii. 328 My Aunt Ruth loved to augment her perennial border with Garden Balsam each spring. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。