单词 | goose-grass |
释义 | goose-grassn. The popular name of various plants, most of which are or were formerly used as food for geese. 1. Silver-weed ( Potentilla anserina). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > rosaceous plants > [noun] > potentilla or cinquefoil quinquefoileOE five-leafc1000 goose-grassa1400 camorochec1440 five-leaved grass1526 tansyc1530 cinquefoil1538 potentilla1548 five-fingered grass1562 agrimony1578 silverweed1578 goose-tansy1597 silver grass1600 silverwort1611 five-finger-grass1640 midsummer silvera1697 strawberry cinquefoil1753 Scotch cinquefoil1789 goose-weed1865 five-finger1866 fair days1884 fair-grass1884 potentil1884 a1400 J. Mirfield Sinonoma Bartholomei (1882) 41 Tanacetum album, gosegresse. c1400 Med. Wks. 15th C. (1899) 99 Tak plaunteyn, gosgres, an[d] housleke. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 204/1 Gosys gres, or camoroche, or wylde tanzy. 1597 J. Gerard Herball App. Goosegras was sometime called Argentina. 1691 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 32 Goose grass, Goose tansie, Argentina. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 240 Goose grass or Wild Tansie is a Weed that strong Clays are very subject to. 1853 G. Johnston Terra Lindisfarnensis I. 71 Potentilla anserina,..Goose-grass. 2. Cleavers ( Galium aparine).Hence applied with distinctive epithet to other species of Galium, as in †downy-stalk goosegrass, ? some variety of G. scabrum (Withering Brit. Pl. 1796); yellow goosegrass, Our Lady's Bedstraw, G. verum (Britten & H., citing Rural Cycl.). Possibly quot. c1400 at sense 1) belongs to this sense. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > goose-grass or cleavers cleaversc1000 hairifc1000 tongue-bleedc1450 goose-grass1530 goose-hairif1551 goose-share1578 clithers1597 goose-bill1597 philanthropos1597 love-man1598 rundles1601 rennet wort1688 catchweed1691 goose-tongue1738 sticking-grass1829 scratch-weed1855 turkey-grass1874 beggars'-lice1880 tongue-bleeder1905 α. β. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 226/2 Gose grece, an herbe.1587 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell (1600) i. 15 Likewise the iuice of cleuers, or goose grease.1691 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 35 Hariff and Catchweed; Goose-grease, Aparine.1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 5) Hariff and Catchweed, Goose Grease.1538 W. Turner Libellus de re Herbaria at Apparine Goosgyrs. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. lxxiv. 538 Cliuer or Goosegrasse hath many smal square branches. 1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden clxxxvii. 292 It is called in English..Goosegrasse, Cleavers (or Clivers). 1779 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. II. 425 The specimen of goose grass or cleavers that you enclos'd is the right sort. 1860 All Year Round 24 Mar. 508 The seeds of avens have one single hook, those of agrimony and goosegrass many. 1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. III. 153 (Goose-grass or Cleavers)..This plant is said to have its name from the fondness of that bird for its herbage. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Rubiaceae or Galiaceae (bedstraw, etc.) > [noun] wild madderc1450 crudwort15.. Our Lady bedstraw1527 Our Lady's bedstraw1543 galion1548 maidenhair1548 purple goose-grass1548 cheese renning1578 crosswort1578 golden mugget1578 petty mugget1578 lady's bedstraw1585 maid's hair1597 cheese rennet1599 runnet1678 field madder1684 mugweed1690 rondeletia1739 Richardia1755 petty madder1760 madderlen1770 galium1785 Sherardia1785 joint-grass1790 mugwort1796 bluet1818 bedstraw1820 madderwort1845 hundredfold1853 honeywort1863 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. A.vijv Alyscon Plinij..had leaues lyke madder and purple floures, it maye be named in englishe purple goosgrafe [sic]. 4. The wild grass Bromus mollis. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > goose-grass haver grass1578 oat-grass1578 golden oat1716 brome1762 goose-corn1762 pearl grass1794 goose-grass1853 pearl1886 1853 G. Johnston Terra Lindisfarnensis I. 217 Bromus mollis..Goose-grass: Bull-grass. 1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Goose-grass,..the brome grass, Bromus mollis. 5. U.S. Categories » a. ‘The door-weed, Polygonum aviculare’ ( Cent. Dict.). Categories » b. ‘Low spear-grass, Poa annua’ ( Stand. Dict.). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1400 |
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