单词 | marshwort |
释义 | marshwortn.1ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > water-parsley or aquatic umbellifers water parsley1562 marsh parsley1582 hemlock (water) dropwort1597 water parsnip1597 water lovage1633 five-fingered root1747 marshwort1776 fool's watercress1837 sap-wort1844 1776 W. Withering Bot. Arrangem. Veg. Great Brit. I. 127 Marshwort..Samolus. 2. Any of several plants of the genus Apium (family Apiaceae ( Umbelliferae)) ; esp. (a) (more fully procumbent marshwort) A. nodiflorum, a creeping Eurasian and North African plant found beside streams and ponds (also called fool's watercress, lesser water-parsnip); (b) (more fully fine-leaved marshwort, least marshwort, lesser marshwort, etc., marshwort) A. inundatum, a floating or submerged western European plant of shallow ponds and ditches. ΚΠ 1831 W. J. Hooker Brit. Flora (ed. 2) 125 H[elosciadium] nodiflorum, Koch, (procumbent Marsh-wort)... Sides of lakes and rivulets. 1831 W. J. Hooker Brit. Flora (ed. 2) 126 H. inundatum, Koch (least Marsh-wort)... Lakes and pools that are dried up in summer. 1897 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 3rd Ser. 8 617 Procumbent marsh-wort, Helosciadium nodiflorum, is a plant with the habit of watercress. 1922 H. S. Salt Call of Wildflower x. 83 With it [sc. pennyroyal] grows the curious heliosciadium inundatum, or ‘least marsh-wort’, a small umbelliferous plant which has more the habit..of a water crowfoot. 1945 R. S. R. Fitter London's Nat. Hist. ix. 146 Around the first of the Highgate Ponds..such plants as the lesser spearwort (Ranunculus flammula), marsh marigold (Caltha palustris), marsh-wort (Apium nodiflorum)..can still be found. 1956 D. McClintock & R. S. R. Fitter Pocket Guide Wild Flowers 97 Marshwort, A[pium] inundatum... A small, easily overlooked, prostrate hairless aquatic perennial. 1960 S. Ary & M. Gregory Oxf. Bk. Wild Flowers 88/1 Fool's Watercress or Marshwort (Apium nodiflorum). 1960 S. Ary & M. Gregory Oxf. Bk. Wild Flowers 88/2 Fine-leaved Marshwort (Apium inundatum). 1987 W. Scott & R. Palmer Flowering Plants & Ferns of Shetland Islands 35 Lesser marshwort (Apium inundatum) and floating club-rush grow in or by peaty burns at the north end [of Fair Isle]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † marshwortn.2 English regional. Obsolete. rare. A cranberry, Vaccinium oxycoccos. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > cranberry bush crone1597 bearberry1651 moor-berry1670 cranberry1672 marshwort1863 tree cranberry1868 1863 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants 146 Marsh-Worts, Vaccinium oxycoccos, L. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < |
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