α. 1500s– live forever.
β. 1700s–1800s live ever.
单词 | live forever |
释义 | live forevern.α. 1500s– live forever. β. 1700s–1800s live ever. 1. Any of several plants belonging to the family Asteraceae ( Compositae) having flowers which retain their shape and colour when dried; esp. cudweed (genus Gnaphalium), and the pearly everlasting, Anaphalis margaritacea. Cf. everlasting adj. 3b. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > cudweeds horewortc1400 chafeweed1548 chafewort1548 cudweed1548 cudwort1548 cartafilago1551 cottonweed1562 downweed1562 petty cotton1578 small cotton1578 file-wort1597 live forever1597 livelong1597 life-everlasting1629 white plantain1687 petty coy1736 cat's-foot1739 owl's crown1787 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 517 It [sc. the flower of a kind of cottonweed]..may be kept..by the space of a whole yeere..wherefore our English women haue called it Liue long, or Liue for euer. 1674 J. Josselyn Acct. Two Voy. 77 Live for ever, it is a kind of cudweed, flourisheth all summer long till cold weather comes in. 1716 Philos. Trans. 1714–16 (Royal Soc.) 29 355 Round Saddle-leaved Cape Live-ever. Elichrysum Capense. 1862 Proc. Essex (Mass.) Inst. 1856–60 2 105 Live Forever, a kind of Cudweed, Antennaria margaritacea. 1959 R. M. Carleton Index Common Names Herbaceous Plants 76 Live-forever: Gnaphalium. 2. Any of numerous succulent plants of the family Crassulaceae, esp. ones included or formerly included in the genus Sedum. Cf. livelong n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Crassulaceae (stonecrop and allies) > [noun] > stonecrop sengreenc1000 stonecropc1000 orpine?a1300 orval?a1300 mouse grassc1300 stonehorea1400 Crassulac1400 sedumc1440 thrift1538 prick-madam1542 mousetail1548 livelong1578 wall pepper1578 worm-grass1578 country pepper1597 jack of the buttery1597 pricket1597 stone-pepper1597 trick-madam1600 trip-madam1693 midsummer mena1697 rosewort1725 roseroot1731 live forever1760 ice plant1818 wall moss1855 Jacka1876 wall grass1882 thick-leaf1884 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 317 Live-ever, Sedum. 1763 J. Wheeler Botanist's & Gardener's New Dict. 290 Liveever, Crassula. 1778 J. Abercrombie Universal Gardener & Botanist at Sempervivum Live-ever, or House-leek. 1852 Cultivator July 244/1 It is well known that a branch of live-forever, (Sedum telephium) if fastened to a dry, hard wall, will grow an entire season. 1857 I. F. Holton New Granada xvi. 218 I will just mention one more, which closely resembles our common house-leek or live-forever. I suppose it to be a Sedum bicolor. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 689/2 Livelong or Live-for-ever, Sedum Telephium. 1935 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 22 553 Sedum triphyllum... Live-forever, Orpine. 1968 Kingsport (Tennessee) Times 1 Nov. 7/2 A sedum called ‘live forever’..is attractive the entire spring, summer, and fall. 2001 J. L. Capinera Handbk. Veg. Pests 314/2 The overwintering, or primary, host in cold climates was thought to be limited to live forever, Sedum purpureum. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1597 |
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