单词 | melampodium |
释义 | melampodiumn. 1. Black hellebore, Helleborus officinalis or H. niger (family Ranunculaceae). Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > hellebores or medicinal hellebores helleboreOE black helleborea1398 padelion1526 neezewort1548 nosewort1563 hellebory1575 melampode1579 neezing wort1591 neezing root1598 poke root1687 melampodium1822 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 826 It is agreed among the later writers, that these plants are Veratra nigra: in English Blacke Hellebors..of divers Melampodion, bicause it was first found by Melampos. 1601 R. Chester Loves Martyr 85 There is blacke Hellebore cald Melampodium, Because an Arcadian shepheard first did find This wholsome herbe Melampus nam'd of some... It cured and reuiu'd her [sc. Proetus' daughter's] memorie, That was possest with a continuall frenzie. a1685 Earl of Roscommon tr. Virgil Sixth Eclogue in Poems (1717) 77 [Juno] in revenge struck them with such Madness that they thought themselves Cows. They were at last cured by Melampodes with Helebore, and for that reason, black Helebore is called Melampodion. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 364 The melampodium or black hellebore, was at one time a favourite cathartic in dropsies. 1875 A. S. Taylor Poisons (ed. 3) lii. 514 Black Hellebore.—This is the Helleborus niger of the modern, and the Melampodium of the old pharmacopœias. 1931 M. Grieve Mod. Herbal I. 388/1 According to Pliny, Black Hellebore was used as a purgative in mania by Melampus,..1,400 years before Christ, hence the name Melampodium applied to Hellebores. 2. In form Melampodium: a genus of plants of the family Asteraceae ( Compositae), comprising white- or yellow-flowered herbs and subshrubs native to tropical and warm parts of America, esp. Mexico; (also melampodium) a plant of this genus, esp. M. leucanthum, sometimes grown as an ornamental.Valid publication of the genus name: Linnaeus Species Plantarum (1753) II. 921. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > composite flowers > other composite flowers ox-eyea1400 starwort?a1450 Jupiter's beard1567 goldenrod1568 achillea1597 blue camomile1597 blue daisy1597 cineraria1597 hog's bean1597 jackanapes on horseback1597 sea-starwort1597 sultan flower1629 mouse-ear1696 aster1706 Canada goldenrod1731 ageratum1737 rudbeckia1751 coreopsis1753 melampodium1754 Aaron's rod1760 zinnia1761 Michaelmas daisy1767 China aster1785 New England aster1785 catananche1798 sea-aster1812 cosmea1813 cosmos1813 gazania1813 erigeron1815 gousblom1822 Christmas daisy1829 rhodanthe1834 tassel-flower1836 ligularia1839 old maid1839 mountain daisy1848 purple coneflower1848 acroclinium1852 sea ox-eye1856 thimble-weed1860 helipterum1862 treasure-flower1866 Swan River daisy1873 blanket flower1879 cone-flower1879 blue marguerite1882 Solidago1883 yellow-top1887 Gaillardia1888 gerbera1889 youth and old age1889 pussytoes1892 niggerhead1893 Transvaal daisy1899 Barberton daisy1906 onion grass1909 ursinia1928 Cupid's dart1930 Livingstone daisy1932 1754 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. III. 2032/2 Melampodium, in botany, a plant of the syngenesia polygamia necessaria class of plants, the compound flower of which is radiated. 1890 Cent. Dict. at Melampodieæ A subtribe of Helianthoideæ,..it includes 21 genera and about 100 species, of which 20 belong to the genus Melampodium. 1995 Org. Gardening Jan. 52/3 Melampodium, a relative newcomer to the gardens of the North, grows wild in the Caribbean, so you know it can take the heat. 1999 Newsday (Electronic ed.) 26 Sept. g08 I planted the melampodium beneath a flowering crab apple tree in the backyard, and I was charmed by the 12-inch-high yellow flowers that look like Lilliputian sunflowers. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1597 |
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