| 单词 | goat stones | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasgoat stones   goat stones  n. now historical any of various European orchids originally regarded as members of a distinct genus  Satyrium; = goat's stones n. at  Compounds 3b. ΚΠ 1597    J. Gerard Herball  i. 160  				The male Goate stones haue leaues like to those of the garden Lillie. 1657    W. Coles Adam in Eden cclxxviii  				It is called..in English Satyrion, Orchis, Doggestones, Goatestones, Foolestones [etc.]. 1728    R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum at Orchis  				The lesser, but true Goat-stones. The smell of this Orchis causeth its Name, which nearer resembles the rank Smell of a Goat. 1886    New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon  				Goatstones. The Orchis hircina, from the resemblance of their roots to the testicles of a goat. 1953    D. Eastwood Mirror of Flowers 27  				The roots of the Lizard Orchis or Goat-stones boiled in milk and eaten with white pepper were particularly efficient. 2006    L. Adkins Wildflowers of Appalachian Trail 		(ed. 2)	 134  				The English variously called it ‘fool's ballocks’, ‘hares ballocks’, and ‘goat stones’. < as lemmas  | 
	
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