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单词 lady's eardrops
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lady's eardrops
lady's eardrops n. (also lady's eardrop) now chiefly historical any of several plants having drooping flowers supposed to resemble earrings; esp. fuchsia and (U.S.) †bleeding heart (genus Dicentra).
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1829 A. H. Lincoln Familiar Lect. Bot. xxv. 145 The Ladies'-ear-drop, (Fuschia [sic],) is a beautiful exotic. It has a funnel-form calyx, of a brilliant red colour.
1895 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 460/2 The dicentra, or ‘dielytra’ (bleeding-heart or lady's-eardrops we called it), had long, gracefully drooping racemes of bright red-pink flowers.
1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables i. 1 A little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies' eardrops.
2006 Seattle Times (Nexis) 6 May They were once nicknamed ‘Lady's Eardrops’ for their resemblance to Victorian earrings.
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