单词 | honewort |
释义 | honewortn. Any of several umbelliferous plants, esp. of (or formerly of) the genus Sison: (a) corn parsley, Petroselinum segetum (more fully corn honewort); (b) stone parsley, S. amomum (more fully hedge honewort); (c) either of two leafy perennials of the genus Cryptotaenia, C. canadensis of North America, and mitsuba, C. japonica, both used to flavour food; (d) a low-growing biennial, Trinia glauca (formerly also called T. glaberrima), of limestone areas in Europe. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Umbelliferae (umbellifers) > [noun] > other umbellifers hemlocka700 petroselinumOE parsleya1300 wild parsleya1300 parsnip1538 lovage1548 hartwort1562 meadow parsnip1562 ass-parsley1598 honewort1633 alexanders1637 dead-tongue1688 ajowan1773 Arracacha1823 pepper saxifrage1824 mock bishop-weed1848 pepper-and-salt1861 square parsley1866 ass's parsley1879 1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) ii. 1018 I saw Mistris Vrsula Leigh..gather it in the wheate ershes about Mapledurham..who told me it was called Honewort, and that her Mother..taught her to vse it..for a swelling which shee had in her left cheeke. 1663 J. Ray App. Catal. Plantarum Cantabr. at Selinum Honewort. On many ditchbanks about Cambridge. ?1785 Earl of Bute Bot. Tables II. 241 Field honewort. S[ison] amomum. 1793 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 3 165 Sison. Honewort... canadense. 1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. 237/1 Trinia glaberrima, Smooth honewort, is an inhabitant of Great Britain, but most be looked upon as a rarity. 1879 M. Plues Rambles in Search of Wild Flowers (ed. 3) ix. 140 The Hedge Honewort and Corn Honewort..I have also sought in vain. 1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names 265 Honewort. Petroselinum segetum. 1908 Jrnl. Northamptonshire Nat. Hist. Soc. & Field Club 14 307 Honewort or Corn Parsley. In Oxendon, on a Bank on the North Side of the Street. 1930 Torreya 30 5 A dozen or more plants of honewort came up at the edge of the rhododendrons. 2005 J. Seidemann World Spice Plants 346/2 Sison amomum L... Common names hedge sison, honewort, stone parsley. 2009 Wells Jrnl. (Nexis) 9 Apr. Acid-loving heather and western gorse grow among rock rose, the rare spring cinqfoil and honewort. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1633 |
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