单词 | lupine |
释义 | lupinelupinn. 1. Any plant of the genus Lupinus (family Leguminosæ); in the early quots. chiefly L. albus, cultivated in the warmer districts of Europe for the seed and for fodder. The species now common in flower-gardens are of American origin. The flowers, blue, rosy-purple, white and sometimes yellow, grow in clusters of long tapering spikes. bastard lupine n. = lupinaster n. ( Treasury Bot.). small lupine n. Psoralea Lupinella ( Treasury Bot.). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > pea flowers > lupins electreOE lupinec1420 flat-bean1597 fig-bean1657 tree lupine1882 blue bonnet1901 Russell1937 c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 237 Lupyne and ficches slayn, and on their roote Vpdried, are as dongyng, londis boote. 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 43 The leues of lupines turne with ye son. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. xxiii. 480 There be two sortes of Lupines, the white or garden Lupine, and the wild Lupine. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 52 Where..Stalks of Lupines grew (a stubborn Wood): Th' ensuing Season, in return, may bear The bearded product of the Golden Year. View more context for this quotation 1707–12 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husb. (1721) II. 150 Lupines are an excellent Pulse, and require little care. 1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile xi. 290 Rows of blossoming lupins, purple and white. 1882 Garden 11 Feb. 91/2 Poor sandy soil suits Lupines well. 2. plural. The seed of this plant. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > medicinal fruit or seed lupinesa1398 semendacy1714 the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > pods, seeds, leaves, or flowers > [noun] > lupin seeds lupinesa1398 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > medicine composed of a plant > [noun] > plant used in medicine > specific seeds linseedc1000 lupinesa1398 nigellaa1398 cardamom?c1425 line1540 semendacy1714 ispaghul1810 ergot1860 Physostigma1864 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. xcv. 986 Some [legumina] beþ bitter of hemsilf as lupines. c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 88 Þese medicyns ben sumwhat more driere: yrios,..lupines, þe rotynes eiþer þe drie poudre of trees. ?1550 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Healthe (1585) B v The Branne of Lupines or penny beane layd on the hearye place [etc.]. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 143 There is not a thing more..light of digestion than white Lupines, if they be eaten dry. 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 530 As the Actors in Comedies paid all their Debts upon the Stage with Lupins, so a Sophist pays all his with Words. 1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1879) II. 950/2 He is said to have lived on lupines. 1898 F. M. Crawford Ave Roma Immort. I. 9 The old men..sunned themselves in the market-place, shelling and chewing lupins to pass the time, as the Romans have always done. 3. attributive. ΚΠ 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. Table Lupine meat medicinable. 1841 R. Browning Pippa Passes ii, in Bells & Pomegranates No. I 10/1 Hellward bound..With food for both worlds..Lupine-seed and Hecate's supper. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lupineadj. Having the nature or qualities of a wolf. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [adjective] > relating to a wolf > like a wolf wolvy1611 lupine1660 wolfish1775 1660 J. Gauden Serm. Funeral Brounrig 236 That which in their Physiognomy is..lupine or leonine (for so we read some men had lionly looks). 1851 C. Kingsley Yeast xiv. 280 To send back the fugitive lamb into the jaws of the well-meaning, but still lupine wolf. 1883 E. Phipson Animal Lore Shakespeare's Time 36 Ravages imagined to be committed by them [men and women] in their lupine shape. 1885 Harper's Mag. Mar. 648/1 The lupine foster-mother of Romulus and Remus. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1398adj.1660 |
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