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单词 heart liver
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heart liver
heart liver n. Obsolete rare (a) spotted medick, Medicago arabica (= heart clover n.); (b) melilot (cf. hart-clover n.). [Probably a folk-etymological alteration of (in sense (a)) heart clover n. and (in sense (b)) hart-clover n.]
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1792–4 T. Martyn Flora Rustica III. §76 Others call it [sc. Heart Medick] Heart Claver or Clover, which has been corrupted into Heart Liver.
1817 Encycl. Londinensis XV. 4/1 This medic is called by our Gerard heart-trefoil; others call it heart claver or clover, corrupted by the vulgar into heart-liver.
1843 Farmer's Mag. 7 289/1 Upon examination I found if bruised it gave out an unpleasant odour, very much resembling the scent of mellilot, or heart liver, and to which it bears some resemblance in the leaf.
extracted from heartn.int.adv.
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