单词 | go-to-bed-at-noon |
释义 | > as lemmasgo-to-bed-at-noon go-to-bed-at-noon n. English regional goat's beard, Tragopogon pratensis (family Asteraceae), the flowers of which close at midday; also called Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon. ΚΠ 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xvii. 167 This hearbe is now called..in English Goates bearde..and Go to bedde at Noone. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 595 It shutteth it selfe at twelue of the clocke..wherupon it was called Go to bed at noone. 1759 B. Stillingfleet in tr. Misc. Tracts Nat. Hist. 41 (note) One plant is so remarkable for this property, that it is generally known in our countrey by the name of go-to-bed-at-noon. 1858 Ballou's Dollar Monthly Mag. Dec. 588/1 It has received the common name of ‘Go-to-bed-at-noon’, and, in many districts of England the farmers' boys are said to regulate their dinner hour by the closing of the goats-beard. 1961 Bios 32 10 Without question, there is aesthetic appeal in such flower names as Go-to-bed-at-noon, Jack-of-the-Butteries, [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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