| 单词 | indian shot |
| 释义 | > as lemmasIndian shot Indian shot n. a plant of the genus Canna (family Cannaceae); spec. C. indica of tropical America and the Caribbean, with large broad leaves, spikes of red to white flowers, and round hard black seeds that are used in jewellery, rattles, etc. (also called Indian reed).A number of varieties of C. indica are grown as ornamentals, many of them formerly regarded as separate species. ΚΠ 1725 H. Sloane Voy. Islands II. (Additions to vol. I) 380 Merian. p. 18. Indian Shot. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xi. 123 The seeds..are round and very hard; whence this plant has the name of Indian Shot. 1865 P. H. Gosse Land & Sea 322 The noble, reed-like leaves of the Indian-shot throw up their scarlet spikes. 1929 H. A. A. Nicholls & J. H. Holland Text-bk. Trop. Agric. (ed. 2) ii. xv. 441 Tous-Les-Mois. Canna edulis... The seeds are round, hard and black, and it is said that they have been used by the natives of India as shot, and hence the name ‘Indian shot’, applied to Canna indica and cannas generally. 1998 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 16 July f4/3 You betray your age..if you know cannas as ‘Indian shot’, a reference to the density of the spherical seeds produced in distinctive, maroon-colored spiny seed capsules. Indian shot c. transferred in Indian shot, the plant Canna indica (see Indian adj. 4). Also plantain shot, flowering shot applied to the same or other species of the genus. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > foliage, house, or garden plants > [noun] > Indian shot canna1582 Indian reed1615 plantain shot1750 wild plantain1756 Indian shot1760 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 316/2 Shot, Plaintain, Canna. 1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 47/2 Flowering Shot. The genus Canna. 1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 67/2 Indian Shot. The genus Canna. < as lemmas |
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