单词 | idaho resin-weed |
释义 | > as lemmasIdaho resin-weed resinweed n. (a) = rosinweed n. at rosin n. Compounds 2 (now rare); (b) any of several North American plants of the genus Grindelia (family Asteraceae ( Compositae)) having yellow flowers and gummy involucral bracts, esp. (more fully Idaho resin-weed) G. nana; cf. gum-plant n. at gum n.2 Compounds 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > compass-plant or silphium silphium1771 turpentine weed1819 rosinweed1831 resinweed1838 polar plant1842 compass-flower1847 compass-plant1848 cup-plant1848 pilot weed1848 turpentine shrub- 1838 E. Flagg Far West II. xxx. 92 The merry note of the skylark, whistling, with speckled vest and dew-wet wing, upon the resin-weed. 1852 L. B. MacKinnon Atlantic & Transatlantic Sketches I. 268 I found that he had spoken the truth, and that the resin grass, or weed, had peculiar leaves which always grew in the same direction. 1869 F. Parkman Discov. Great West xvii. 206 The meadows..spangled with the yellow blossoms of the resin-weed and the Rudbeckia. 1936 Roselle (Illinois) Reg. 25 Dec. The compass plant (Silphium laciniatum) is native to the prairie regions and is also called resinweed. 1976 T. F. Niehaus Field Guide Pacific States Wildflowers 212 Idaho Resin Weed. Grindelia nana. The rounded flower heads have completely looped and hooked bract tips with a distinct white gummy liquid between them. 1996 A. P. Knight in L. D. Lewis Feeding & Care of Horse (ed. 2) xviii. 326/2 Gumweed or resinweed (Grindelia spp.). This is a secondary selenium accumulator. < as lemmas |
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