单词 | gladiolus |
释义 | gladiolusn. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > iris and related flowers > irises gladdona700 gladiolusc1000 flaga1387 fleur-de-lisc1390 regworta1400 yellow flag1526 lug1538 yellow lily1555 spurge-wort1562 swordling1562 garden flag1578 ireos1578 iris1578 stinking iris1578 water flag1578 yellow iris1578 fane1597 Florentine flower-de-luce1597 stinking gladdon1597 stinking sedge1597 velvet flower-de-luce1597 orris1609 sisyrinchium1629 luce1642 Florence iris1664 cuttle-haft1688 blue flag1732 snake's-head iris1739 flag-flower1753 roast-beef plant1800 shalder1825 flag-leaf1827 sweet sedge1839 poison flag1840 flagger1842 wedding-flower1869 mourning iris1874 flagon1878 Rocky Mountain iris1880 Florentine iris1882 Japanese iris1883 flag-lily1884 sword-flag1884 blue iris1886 thunderbolt1898 scorpion iris1900 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. Categories » 2. Anatomy. ‘A term for the second piece or body of the sternum’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1885). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.c1000 |
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