| 单词 | garden gates |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgarden gates 2. English regional. Any of several flowering plants having small pink or purple flowers, spec. (a) heartsease, Viola tricolor (now historical and rare); †(b) herb Robert, Geranium robertianum (obsolete rare); †(c) (in plural garden gates) the cultivated hybrid saxifrage London pride, Saxifraga x urbium (obsolete rare).Cf. earlier kiss-me-at-the-gate n. at kiss- comb. form . ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > pea flowers > violet and allied flowers > allied flowers pansyc1450 heartsease1530 pansy flower1530 three (also two) faces under (or in) a (or one) hood1548 bulbous violet1578 love-in-idleness1578 sweet violet1578 pensea1592 cull-me-to-you1597 dog's tooth violet1597 dog violet1597 kiss-me-ere-I-rise1597 live in idleness1597 wild violet1597 yellow violet1597 love-and-idle1630 love-in-idle1664 trinity1699 fancy1712 wood violet1713 marsh violet1753 tree violet1753 kiss-me-at-the-gate1787 bird's-foot violet1802 Parma violet1812 Johnny-jump-up1827 stepmother1828 Neapolitan violet1830 garden gate1842 butterfly pea1848 kissa1852 pinkany-John1854 viola1871 kiss-me1877 pink-eyed John1877 face and hood1886 roosterhead1894 trout-lily1909 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > saxifrage flowers prattling parnel1597 pride of London1629 prince's feather1629 London pride1697 none-so-pretty1731 sanicle1760 heuchera1772 nancy-pretty1825 Bergenia1838 St. Patrick's cabbage1851 spider plant1852 strawberry geranium1880 garden gate1881 megasea1886 maiden's wreath1893 mother of thousands1910 1842 Essex Standard 30 Sept. Take, again, that flower, rich in many names—the viola tricolor, pansy, heart's-ease, love in idleness, garden-gate. 1880 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Garden Gate. (1) Viola tricolor, L.—One of the many peculiar names of the pansy; most probably a contraction of one of the longer names, such as ‘Kiss-behind-the-Garden-Gate;’.. (2) Geranium Robertianum, L. 1881 Rep. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 13 207 ‘What do you call that flower?’ I enquired of a woman at Bovey Tracey..as I pointed to a clump of Saxifrage, the flower elsewhere known as London Pride... ‘We call it Garden-gates,’ was her reply. 1920 W. E. Brenchley Weeds of Farm Land xiii. 226 Viola tricolor..garden gate. 1960 A. O. D. Claxton Suffolk Dial. (ed. 2) Garden gate, the heartsease, small wild viola (Viola Tricolor). < as lemmas |
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