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单词 gladiolus
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gladiolusn.

/ɡlaˈdʌɪələs//ɡladɪˈəʊləs/
Forms: Plural gladioli, gladioluses.
Etymology: Latin (diminutive of gladius sword); used as a plant-name by Pliny. Compare French glaieul.
1. (a) The wild iris or gladdon n. (b) Any plant of the iridaceous genus Gladiolus, having sword-shaped leaves and spikes of brilliant flowers; the commonly cultivated species are South African.Sometimes, instead of the plural gladioli, the singular is used with a collective force; see quots. 1666, 1866.
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c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 182 Wið blædran sare..genim þysse wyrte wyrttruman utewearde ðe man gladiolum, & oþrum naman glædene nemneþ.
1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 45 Gladiolus, his form and proportion of leafe is like to Sedge, his flower yealow in a maner like to the flower Deluce.
1666 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 2) 65 Take up your Gladiolus now yearly, the blades being dry.
1775 F. Masson in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 66 279 We collected a great number of beautiful plants, particularly ixiæ, irides, and gladioli.
1796 tr. Thunberg's Cape G. Hope in Pinkerton Voy. (1814) XVI. 65 It [a mole] feeds on several sorts of bulbous roots..especially Gladioluses, Ixias, Antholyzas, and Irises.
1864 Baroness Bunsen in A. J. C. Hare Life & Lett. Baroness Bunsen (1879) II. vii. 346 A clump of the large scarlet gladiolus is my daily delight at present.
1866 Cornhill Mag. Nov. 538 White arums, orchises, and pink gladiolus.
1873 ‘Ouida’ Pascarèl II. 162 The millet filled with crimson gladioli and great scarlet poppies.
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2. Anatomy. ‘A term for the second piece or body of the sternum’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1885).
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