| 单词 | german madwort |
| 释义 | > as lemmasGerman madwort German madwort n. †(a) a labiate plant with narrow, toothed leaves and purple flowers (perhaps a member of the genus Sideritis) (obsolete rare); (b) = madwort n. 3 (now rare). [With sense (a), compare post-classical Latin alyssum germanicum (1597 in the same source as quot. 1597, or earlier)] . ΚΠ 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 379 The Germaine Madwoort bringeth foorth from a fibrous roote, two broad, rough, and hoarie leaues. 1670 J. Ray Catalogus Plantarum Angliæ 19 Alysson Germanicum echoides..Small wild Bugloss, great Goose-grass, German Madwort. 1701 R. Morden New Descr. & State of Eng. 76 Here are many excellent plants which grow, and in Cambridgeshire, as..German-Madwort, Water-Pimpernel, [etc.]. 1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. IV. 59 (German Madwort)..This little prostrate annual plant..is found more or less all over Europe. 1906 T. Fox How to find & name Wild Flowers 111 German Madwort.—..flowers bluish-purple, solitary, in axils of upper leaves. < as lemmas |
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