| 单词 | great moonwort |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreat moonwort 2. The plant honesty, Lunaria annua. Formerly also †great moonwort, †greater moonwort. Cf. lunary n.1 (a). Now English regional and U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > cruciferous flowers > white or purple flowers > honesty lunaryc1386 shabub1548 bolbanac1578 money flower1578 penny-flower1578 honesty1597 moonwort1597 pricksong wort1597 satin1597 satin flower1597 white satin1597 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. cxvii. 378 Such an one as this Violet is, which we surname Latifolia or broade leafed: generally taken of all to be the great Lunaria, or great Moonewoort. 1656 W. Coles Art of Simpling 37 The seed of Bulbonack resembles the Moon, which is therefore called Great Moonwort. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Lunaria Greater Moon-wort, with round Pods, commonly call'd Honesty, or White Sattin. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxiii. 324 The brilliant whiteness of these silicles has occasioned this plant [sc. Honesty] to be called White Sattin: and from the shape of them it is named Lunaria and Moonwort. 1860 Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (ed. 4) 40 Lunaria biennis, the Moonwort or Honesty, with its broad flat pods. 1900 P. Tennant Village Notes 114 ‘Moonwort’..is one of the class of picture names, for it must allude to the seed-pod of this flower, with its white, silvery disk, like a full moon. 1974 T. E. Weier et al. Botany (ed. 5) xvi. 295 (caption) Siliques...D, of moonwort (Lunaria annua). < as lemmas |
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