| 单词 | lesser bell-heather |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslesser bell-heather a. The Scottish name, now in general use, for the native species of the Linnæan genus Erica, called in the north of England, ling n.2; especially E. (now Calluna) vulgaris, common heather, and E. cinerea, fine-leaved heath or lesser bell-heather.Some recent botanical writers have essayed to limit the originally local names heath, ling, heather, to different species; but each of these names is, in its own locality, applied to all the species there found, and pre-eminently to that locally most abundant. On the Yorkshire and Scottish moors, the most abundant is E. vulgaris, which is therefore the ‘common ling’ of the one, the ‘common heather’ of the other. But in other localities, esp. in the south-west, E. cinerea is the prevalent species, and is there the ‘common heath’. Scottish distinctions are dog-heather, he-heather ( E. vulgaris), carlin heather, she-heather ( E. cinerea). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > heather or heath and similar plants > [noun] heather1335 ling?c1357 heath1626 grig1691 bottle heath?1711 sea-heath1713 heather-bell1725 red heath?1788 Calluna1803 Scotch heath1822 Erica1826 winter heath1842 heathwort1847 heath-blooms1858 St. Dabeoc's heath1863 cat-heather1864 honey bottle1868 French heath1871 1335 Compotus Procuratoris de Norham (Durh. Treasury MS.) In strauue et hathir emptis pro coopertura domus molendini. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xii. l. 898 Hadyr and hay bond apon flakys fast. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) v. l. 300 In heich haddyr Wallace and thai can twyn. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 261 Greit abbais grayth I nill to gather Bot ane kirk, scant coverit with hadder. 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. C.viij v Erice is called in greeke Ereice, it is named in english Heth hather, or ling..it groweth on frith and wyld mores, some vse to make brusshes of heath. 1572 R. Sempill Lament. Commounis Scotl. (single sheet) With Peittis, with Turuis, and mony turse of Hedder. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. xvi. 678 Heath, Hather, and Lyng is called in high and base Almaigne, Heyden. 1607 J. Norden Surueyors Dialogue Heath is the generall or common name, whereof there is one kind, called hather, the other ling. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. ii. v. i. 628 Those Indian Brachmanni..lay vpon the ground couered with skinnes, as the Redshanks doe on Hadder. 1633 J. Hart Κλινικη i. xxvii. 126 In the Northerne..places of this Island..They dry their malt with ling, or heath, called there hadder. 1691 J. Ray Catal. N. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 135 Hadder, heath or Ling. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Plague They are to give them Hather or Hadder to eat. 1754 E. Burt Lett. N. Scotl. I. xiii. 297 The Surface of the Ground is all over Heath, or, as they call it, Heather. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 199/1 Calluna. The true ‘Heather’ of Scotland, called also Ling and Common Heath. 1873 W. Black Princess of Thule i. 11 Everywhere around were..great gray boulders..set amid the browns and greens of the heather. < as lemmas |
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