| 单词 | goat's leaf |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgoat's leaf goat's leaf n. [after post-classical Latin caprifolium caprifoil n.; compare earlier goat leaf n. at Compounds 3a] now rare a kind of honeysuckle, Lonicera caprifolium (family Caprifoliaceae), having perfoliate top leaves and creamy blossoms tinged with pink, also as goat's leaf honeysuckle; (also) the common honeysuckle, L. periclymenum. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > climbing, trailing, or creeping shrubs > [noun] > honeysuckle or woodbine honeysuckOE goat leafa1275 woodbinea1300 honeysucklea1400 suckle-bloom14.. bindc1440 goat's leaf1526 caprifoil1578 suckling1653 trumpet honeysuckle1731 white honeysuckle1731 dwarf honeysuckle1812 suckle1816 twinflower1836 fly-honeysuckle1861 linnaea1862 lonicera1863 swamp honeysuckle1958 1526 Grete Herball cxl. sig. I.iv/1 Caprifolium sive daprificus that is cheruell or gotes leues. 1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) ii. xlvi. 230 Goats leafe..will grow euerie where, if it be not annoyed with wind. 1777 W. Whitehead Goat's Beard 10 Woodbine. The Caprifolium or Goat's Leaf of the ancients and of Tournefort. 1841 J. H. Fennell Nat. Hist. Quadrupeds 492 Their [sc. goats] most favourite food appears to be the leaves of the honeysuckle—hence the French call it chévrefeuille, or goat's-leaf. 1861 P. Lankester Wild Flowers 71 The Perfoliate Honeysuckle, or Goat's-leaf. 1903 G. B. Emerson Rep. Trees & Shrubs Mass. (ed. 5) II. 403 To the first section also belong the Woodbine or Common Honeysuckle,..a native of Europe, very generally introduced into this country; and the Goat's Leaf Honeysuckle. 1982 D. Streeter & R. Richardson Discovering Hedgerows 98 Honeysuckle is one of the most beautiful of our midsummer hedgerow flowers... Like a mountain goat it leaps and binds beyond the places where mortals dare to climb, so it has been called ‘goat's leaf’. < as lemmas |
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