单词 | heath milkwort |
释义 | > as lemmasheath milkwort 2. Any of various small plants constituting the genus Polygala (family Polygalaceae) of north temperate regions, having racemes of small, irregular, chiefly blue, purple, pink, or white flowers with petaloid inner sepals, and formerly supposed to increase lactation in nursing mothers; esp. (more fully common milkwort) Polygala vulgaris or (more fully heath milkwort) P. serpyllifolia. Frequently with distinguishing word. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Polygalaceae (milkwort and allies) > [noun] milkwort1578 polygala1578 Cross-flower1597 gang flower1597 rogation flower1597 procession flower1633 rattlesnake root1682 senega1738 rattlesnake-wort1763 flowering wintergreen1818 mountain flax1824 shepherd's thyme1857 love1874 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xxxiii. 48 There be two kyndes of Mylkewurte [Du. melckcruyt], differing both in name and figure: whereof one is called Glaux, and the other Polygala. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 448 Of Milke woort. 1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ iii. xxii. 420 Polygala Πολυγαλον Milkwort, a handful steeped all night in white wine..purgeth Choller. 1759 B. Stillingfleet tr. C. Gedner Of Use of Curiosity in Misc. Tracts Nat. Hist. 154 No physician would have even suspected, that our milkwort would be usefull in the bite of serpents,..unless the principles of botany had led him to it. 1858 A. Irvine Illustr. Handbk. Brit. Plants 740 P. vulgaris, Linn. Common Milkwort. 1915 M. Armstrong & J. J. Thornber Field Bk. Western Wild Flowers 278 California Milkwort Polygala Californica. 1936 J. C. Powys Maiden Castle (1937) vi. 227 Among several minute plants in the grass..he marked a few that were well-known to him, especially the blue and white milkwort. 1960 S. Ary & M. Gregory Oxf. Bk. Wild Flowers 168/2 Heath Milkwort (P. Serpyllifolia). 1972 R. Adams Watership Down xix. 112 They came to a patch of milkwort—a blue as deep as that of the sky. 1993 Wildlife News (Berks., Bucks. & Oxon Naturalists' Trust) 11/1 The Watts Reserve still sports a wide variety of downland wildflowers such as the autumn gentian and the chalk milkwort. < as lemmas |
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