| 单词 | great plantain |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreat plantain 1. Any of various low-growing plants constituting the genus Plantago (family Plantaginaceae), with dense cylindrical spikes of inconspicuous flowers and leaves in a basal rosette usually pressed closely to the ground; esp. (a) (in full greater plantain, †great plantain) P. major, with long, tapering spikes and broadly ovate leaves; (b) = ribwort n.buck's horn, rose plantain, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Plantaginaceae > [noun] waybreadeOE ribeOE psylliumOE waybread leafOE plantaina1325 herb Ivec1386 ersworta1400 psyllya1425 flea-seed1562 buck's-horn plantain1578 fleabane1578 hartshorn1578 lamb's tongue1578 rose plantain1597 rose ribwort1597 globularia1728 fire-leaves1796 ribwort1846 hoary plantain1861 goatweed1864 hartshorn plantain- a1325 in T. Hunt Plant Names Medieval Eng. (1989) 209 [Plantago] anglice plauntayne. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 1391 (MED) The tenthe sterre is Almareth..His Stone is Jaspe, and of Planteine He hath his herbe sovereine. c1395 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Tale 581 His forheed dropped as a stillatorie, Were ful of plantayne [v.rr. plannteyn, plauntayn, planteyne, pleintein] and of paritorie. ?a1425 (?1373) Lelamour Herbal (1938) f. 61 (MED) Þe lesse playntein, j-callid rubwort, may do all þes vertues a for saide. ?c1450 in G. Müller Aus Mittelengl. Medizintexten (1929) 47 (MED) Take herbe water..honysowke, þe mede plaunteyn, mynte, þe grete hocke, [etc.]. 1526 Grete Herball cccxliv. sig. Tiiiv/2 Plantayne or weybrede..is an herbe that ye greke call arnoglosse. It is called also..grete plantayne, and groweth in moyst places & playne feldes. 1566 T. Blundeville Order curing Horses Dis. cii. f. 74v, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe I..would giue him red wine to drinke, and put therein a little Acatium, the iuyce of Plantain, and a little Mastick. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 51 Those of Paduoa [are said] to love women with little brests, which makes their women use the juyce of Plantane to keep them from growing. a1625 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Two Noble Kinsmen (1634) i. ii. 61 These poore sleight sores, Neede not a plantin . View more context for this quotation 1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 629 There grow wild in the Woods, Plantane of all sorts. 1748 W. Shenstone School-mistress xii, in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems (ed. 2) I. 252 And Plaintain ribb'd, that heals the reaper's wound. 1779 Farmer's Mag. Nov. 343 Great Plantain, or Waybread. 1840 C. Dewey in C. Dewey & G. B. Emerson Rep. Herbaceous Plants & Quadrupeds Mass. 114 Plantago major, Common Plantain. One of the plants that seem to follow man in the temperate climes. 1864 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. ii. 215 The Seeds of Greater Plantain are a favourite food of cage-birds. 1890 H. S. Holland in S. Paget H. S. Holland (1920) ii. iv. 195 The long-suffering plantains on the lawn, prodded by Roffen in the agonies of debate. 1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. xxi. 413 The profuse development of plantains round the gate of a cow paddock or behind a hedge where stock walk up and down is a frequently seen condition. 1990 Gardener Nov. 26/2 Weeds will give some idea of the character of the soil. If it is acid, the main weeds will include daisy, dock, creeping buttercup, plantain and thistle. < as lemmas |
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