| 单词 | ladies' ear-drop |
| 释义 | > as lemmasladies' ear-drop 2. Frequently in plural. Any of various plants with pendant flowers; spec. (a) (more fully †ladies' ear-drop, lady's ear-drop) a fuchsia, esp. Fuchsia magellanica (cf. earring n. 2); (b) a dicentra, esp. (in full golden ear-drop) Dicentra (or Ehrendorferia) chrysantha of California, which has yellow flowers. ΚΠ 1811 D. Hosack Hortus Elginensis (ed. 2) 24/2 Fushia or Ear drop. 1829 A. H. Lincoln Familiar Lect. Bot. xxv. 145 The Ladies'-ear-drop..has a funnel-form calyx, of a brilliant red colour. 1861 A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. (rev. ed.) 225 Dicentra, Borkh. Ear-drop. 1898 A. M. Davidson Calif. Plants Index Golden Ear-Drop. 1911 Country Life Amer. 15 Dec. 22/1 The fuchsia, or lady's ear-drop, is one of the plants which was much grown in the window garden twenty or twenty-five years ago. 1980 M. G. Schmidt Growing Calif. Native Plants 103 The seed of Golden Ear-Drops resists germination. 2001 J. McVicar Seeds 180/1 Fuchsia magellanica (Lady's ear drops) Zones 6–9. < as lemmas |
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