| 单词 | lady-finger grass |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslady-finger grass 1. Any of several herbaceous plants with flowers borne in clusters resembling fingers; esp. kidney vetch ( Anthyllis vulneraria) and, formerly, †bird's-foot trefoil ( Lotus corniculatus) (also lady-finger grass). Also in plural with singular agreement. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > other leguminous plants peaseOE vetchc1400 hatchet vetch1548 mock liquorice1548 scorpion's tail1548 ax-fitch1562 ax-seed1562 axwort1562 treacle clover1562 lady's finger1575 bird's-foot1578 goat's rue1578 horseshoe1578 caterpillar1597 kidney-vetch1597 horseshoe-vetch1640 goat rue1657 kidney-fetch1671 galega1685 stanch1726 scorpion senna1731 Dolichos1753 Sophora1753 partridge pea1787 bauhinia1790 coronilla1793 swamp pea-tree1796 Mysore thorn1814 devil's shoestring1817 pencil flower1817 rattlebox1817 Canavalia1828 milk plant1830 joint-vetch1836 milk pea1843 prairie clover1857 oxytrope1858 rattleweed1864 wart-herb1864 snail-flower1866 poison pea1884 masu1900 money bush1924 Townsville stylo1970 orange bird's-foot2007 1575 J. Banister Needefull Treat. Chyrurg. f. 100 Digitalis, Ladie finger, hoate and drie, mundificatiue, and aperitiue. 1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 36 Diuers fashioned floures, as yealow Crowfoote, or golden Knop, Oxeye.., Ladies fingers. 1670 J. Ray Catalogus Plantarum Angliæ 24 Anthyllis leguminosa... Kidney-vetch, Ladies finger. 1744 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Mar. xvi. 148 Your Lady-finger-grass (or Birds-foot Trefoil..which is the Botanical Name). 1757 W. Watson in Philos. Trans. 1756 (Royal Soc.) 49 842 Kidney Vetch, or Ladies Finger. 1848 C. A. Johns Week at Lizard 306 Anthyllis vulneraria, variety Dillenii, Lady's-fingers, occurs..all along the coast. 1869 Harper's Mag. June 122/1 Lady's Slipper, or Lady's Finger, Called Bird's-foot Trefoil, as I suppose, From shape of the flower and leaf as it grows. 1883 Cent. Mag. Nov. 107/2 Narrow-leaved plantain, a few buttercups, a small yellow flower unknown to me (probably ladies' fingers), also a species of dandelion and prunella. 1947 D. H. Robinson Leguminous Forage Plants (ed. 2) v. 69 Kidney Vetch, Sand Clover, or Ladies' Fingers, is a perennial plant in the wild state, but when cultivated behaves more like a biennial. 1996 Chiltern Seeds Catal. 19 Kidney Vetch, Ladies Fingers. In flower all summer from June to September when it can be found growing wild in many parts of Britain..this delightful plant must be one of our brightest and most colourful native species. < as lemmas |
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