| 单词 | lady's thimble |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslady's thimble lady's thimble n. (also ladies' thimbles) chiefly English regional and Scottish (a) harebell, Campanula rotundifolia; (b) foxglove, Digitalis purpurea. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > bellflowers bell-flower1578 bluebell1578 Canterbury bells1578 Coventry bells1578 Coventry Marians1578 Coventry rapes1578 fair-in-sight1578 gauntlet1578 haskwort1578 Marian's violet1578 throatwort1578 lady's looking glass1597 mariet1597 Mercury's violet1597 peach-bells1597 steeple bells1597 uvula-wort1597 Venus looking-glass1597 campanula1664 Spanish bell1664 corn-violet1665 rampion1688 Venus' glass1728 harebell1767 heath-bell1805 witch bell1808 slipperwort1813 meadow-bell1827 greygle1844 platycodon1844 lady's thimble1853 kikyo1884 witches' bells1884 balloon flower1901 fairy thimble1914 mountain bell1923 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > foxglove and allied flowers > foxglove foxglovec1000 London button1552 wine-pot herb1552 finger1562 finger flower1562 lady's glove1575 foxter1623 fox-finger1657 fox1684 bloody finger1789 witch bell1808 fairy fingers1811 fairy thimble1813 dead men's bells1818 witches' thimbles1820 fairy bells1821 fairy glove1841 flap-dock1846 cow-flop1847 pop-glove1847 lady's thimble1853 Scotch mercury1853 poppy1856 fairy petticoats1864 finger root1870 fairy weed1871 pop-dock1878 witches' bells1884 1853 G. Johnston Terra Lindisfarnensis I. 134 Campanula rotundiflora. Blue-Bells: Ladies' Thimbles. 1853 G. Johnston Terra Lindisfarnensis I. 158 Our little girls glove their fingers with them [sc. foxgloves] and call them Ladies' thimbles. 1974 W. Leeds Herefordshire Speech 77 Lady's thimble, harebell. 1982 K. N. Sanecki Discovering Herbs (ed. 3) 31 Foxgloves are a must for the decorative herb garden... These have earned several descriptive country names for the plant: fairy cap, fairy glove, lady's thimble, witch's thimble, [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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