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单词 giant water dock
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giant water dock
Any of several aquatic or waterside plants with large or broad leaves; esp. those of the genus Rumex (family Polygonaceae), as western or Scottish dock, R. aquaticus, and (more fully giant water dock, great water dock) R. hydrolapathum of streams and lakesides in Europe and western Asia.
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a1400 Alphita (Selden) (1887) 94 Lappacium aquaticum, i. lappacium maius, angl. waterdokke uel edokke.
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Hydrolapathon, water dockes.
1580 T. Newton Approoued Med. f. 57v Hippolapathum, Lapathum palustre... The water docke, is of the same vertue as Patience and Sorrell bee, but more weaker.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Parelle de marais, The great water-Docke, or Sorrell... Parelle petite, Ditch Docke, the small water Docke.
1668 R. Venables Experienc'd Angler (ed. 3) vii. 72 The Pike..shelters himself (the better to surprise his prey unawares) amongst Bull-rushes, water-docks, or under Bushes.
1765 J. Hill Power of Water-dock against Scurvy 30 Exercise proportioned to the strength, and at the best hours of the day, will prove highly serviceable; and most of all so in a course of the Essence of Water-Dock.
1801 S. Stearns Amer. Herbal 130 The great Water Dock..grows about rivers and other watery grounds.
1882 R. Jefferies Bevis III. 194 Great water-docks at the margin with leaves almost a yard long.
1942 Irish Naturalists' Jrnl. 8 36 The leaves are rather narrower and smaller than those of the Great Water-dock.
2001 Water Gardening Oct. 18/3 Opt for the giant water dock (Rumex hydrolapathum).
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