| 单词 | jackanapes on horseback |
| 释义 | > as lemmasjackanapes on horseback jackanapes on horseback (also †jackanapes a horseback) (a) any variety of marigold or daisy which has a flower with smaller flowers or flower-like parts growing from its edge (cf. hen and chickens n. 2a) (now historical and rare); (b) a polyanthus having flowers with leaf-like or petal-like sepals and bracts (now historical). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > composite flowers > other composite flowers ox-eyea1400 starwort?a1450 Jupiter's beard1567 goldenrod1568 achillea1597 blue camomile1597 blue daisy1597 cineraria1597 hog's bean1597 jackanapes on horseback1597 sea-starwort1597 sultan flower1629 mouse-ear1696 aster1706 Canada goldenrod1731 ageratum1737 rudbeckia1751 coreopsis1753 melampodium1754 Aaron's rod1760 zinnia1761 Michaelmas daisy1767 China aster1785 New England aster1785 catananche1798 sea-aster1812 cosmea1813 cosmos1813 gazania1813 erigeron1815 gousblom1822 Christmas daisy1829 rhodanthe1834 tassel-flower1836 ligularia1839 old maid1839 mountain daisy1848 purple coneflower1848 acroclinium1852 sea ox-eye1856 thimble-weed1860 helipterum1862 treasure-flower1866 Swan River daisy1873 blanket flower1879 cone-flower1879 blue marguerite1882 Solidago1883 yellow-top1887 Gaillardia1888 gerbera1889 youth and old age1889 pussytoes1892 niggerhead1893 Transvaal daisy1899 Barberton daisy1906 onion grass1909 ursinia1928 Cupid's dart1930 Livingstone daisy1932 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > primrose and allied flowers > cowslip cowslipc1000 primerolea1350 herb Peter?a1450 Peter?a1450 paigle?c1450 St. Peter's wort1526 pigle1570 jackanapes on horseback1597 palsywort1597 galligaskin1629 passwort1671 fairy cups1855 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 602 Calendula maior prolifera... This fruitfull or much bearing Marigolde, is..called of the vulgar sort of women Iacke an apes a horse backe. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 635 Oxelip..whose flowers are curled and wrinckled after a most strange maner, which our women haue named, Iacke an apes on horsebacke. 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole xxxv. 247 The Franticke, Fantasticke, or Foolish Cowslip, in some places is called by Country people, Iacke an Apes on horse-backe, which is an vsuall name with them, giuen to many other plants, as Daisies, Marigolds, &c. if they be strange or fantasticall, differing in the forme from the ordinary kinde of the single ones. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory vii. 70/2 The Jack-an-Apes on Horse-back, or the fantastick Cowslip, hath the flower all green and jagged, like to a Juli flower. 1839 Carthusian May 470 How to settle a coxcomb cockney with a bunch of ‘London-pride’; to roast a quizzical anti-benedict with a dressing of ‘batchelor's buttons’, or to mystify some aspiring cornet with a ‘jackanapes-on-horseback’. 1874 Florist & Pomologist May 106 The Jackanapes-on-Horseback is an exaggerated form of this latter [sc. Galligaskins], in which the bracts at the base of the umbel also become large and foliaceous. 1956 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 69 15 There are, furthermore, two varieties of Bellis perennis, one of which (known chiefly in England) goes under such names as March Daisy, Childers, Childing Daisy, Jackanapes-on-Horseback, and Hen and Chickens Daisy, or just Hen and Chickens. 2002 Times (Nexis) 30 Mar. Then there is the Jackanapes, with a striped calyx..; the Gallygaskins, with an enlarged, ribbed calyx; and even double and triple mutations such as the Jackanapes on Horseback. < as lemmas |
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