单词 | grass pink |
释义 | > as lemmasgrass pink grass pink n. (a) the garden pink, Dianthus plumarius; †(b) U.S. an orchid native to central and eastern North America, Pogonia ophioglossoides, having fragrant pink flowers (obsolete rare); (c) North American any of several orchids comprising the genus Calopogon, which are native to eastern North America and have pink, purple, or white flowers and grass-like leaves. ΚΠ 1664 S. Blake Compl. Gardeners Pract. 59 Pinks. Two sorts there are, viz. the matted Pink, and the grasse Pink. 1811–12 W. J. Titford Sketches Hortus Botanicus Americanus 122 Grass Pink. A small low plant with linear grass-like leaves, and a five-petalled red flower. 1894 Harper's Mag. Mar. 566 The sweet pogonia or grass-pink of our sedgy swamps (Pogonia ophioglossoides). 1899 Sunday Sentinel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) 30 July ii. 7/6 The turf was dotted with sprays of grass pinks (Calopogon pulchellus), in two colors, deep pink and pale lavender. 1904 L. C. Corbett Ann. Flowering Plants 42 The Scotch pink, or grass pink. The Scotch pink, Dianthus plumarius, is a hardy dianthus. 1996 E. A. Proulx Accordion Crimes (1997) 230 New snow fell,..covering the decaying leaves and raw earth, the single leaf of the grass-pink. 2004 Systematic Bot. 29 308/1 The genus Calopogon..includes five showy, terrestrial species of short-lived, herbaceous perennials known as Grass Pinks. 2012 E. G. Voss & A. A. Reznicek Field Man. Mich. Flora 533 Dianthus plumarius L.—Garden or Grass Pink. Roadsides, fields, open rocky forests, dunes. < as lemmas |
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