| 单词 | australian pincushion |
| 释义 | > as lemmasAustralian pincushion 2. Any of various plants with flowers in globular heads, esp. ones with protruding stamens or styles suggesting pins in a pincushion; spec. (a) any of several kinds of scabious, esp. the sweet scabious or mourning widow, Scabiosa atropurpurea, a popular garden annual; †(b) English regional the snowball tree, Viburnum opulus ‘Roseum’ (obsolete); (c) U.S. any of several herbaceous plants of the genus Chaenactis (family Asteraceae ( Compositae)), having discoid flower heads and occurring in western North America; (d) (in full blue pincushion, Australian pincushion), an Australian herbaceous plant, Brunonia australis (family Brunoniaceae), with rounded heads of blue flowers; (e) South African = pincushion protea n. at Compounds 2.robin's pincushion n. at robin n.1 Compounds 3b. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > names applied to various flowers heliotropec1000 flower jaunette1423 helichrysum1551 sunflower1562 Armeria1578 hyacinth1578 pimpernel1578 vaccin1589 heliochryse1593 purple1604 sunflower1622 mayflower1626 starflower1629 bluebottle1648 pink1731 trumpet-flower1732 fly-wort1753 witches' thimbles1820 honey plant1824 black-eyed Susan1836 shell-flower1845 pincushion1847 pincushion flower1856 nightingale1862 garland-flower1866 paper-white1880 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II. 625/1 Pincushion, the sweet scabious. East. 1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names 380 Pincushion, Viburnum Opulus, L. (garden form). Heref. 1901 W. L. Jepson Flora Western Middle Calif. 476 Mourning Bride..[is] called ‘Pin Cushion’ by children at East Oakland. 1941 E. C. Jaeger Desert Wild Flowers (rev. ed.) 298 Mohave Pincushion. Chaenactis macrantha... A low annual, with reddish-brown stems. 1952 A. G. L. Hellyer Sanders' Encycl. Gardening (ed. 22) 72 Brunonia... Species Cultivated: B. australis, ‘Blue Pincushion’, blue, 9 in., summer, Tasmania. 1961 J. H. Thomas Flora Santa Cruz Mountains 327 S. atropurpurea... Pincushion. Becoming increasingly common along roads and highways. 1965 Austral. Encycl. VII. 118/2 Pincushion, Australian, or blue pincushion, the popular name for Brunonia,..low herbaceous perennials, bearing blue flowers in very effective long-stalked heads. 1972 E. Palmer & N. Pitman Trees Southern Afr. I. 541 Most of the pincushions are shrubs but several species grow into trees. 1979 R. Spellenberg Audubon Soc. Field Guide N. Amer. Wildflowers, W. Region 353 Esteve's Pincushion (Chaenactis stevioides)... A small, openly branched plant with heads of white disk flowers. 1986 Plant Dis. 70 33 A new disease of cultivated pincushions (Leucospermum spp.)..is described... The disease occurs in the major pincushion production areas of the southwestern Cape Province. < as lemmas |
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