| 单词 | mexican thistle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMexican thistle Mexican thistle n. (a) the Mexican prickly poppy, Argemone mexicana; (b) any of several other spiny Mexican plants. ΚΠ 1837 J. Macfadyen Flora Jamaica I. 20 Argemone Mexicana. Mexican or Gamboge Thistle. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1145/2 Thistle, Mexican. Erythrolæna conspicua. 1890 Cent. Dict. at Thistle Mexican thistle, Cnicus (Erythrolæna) conspicuus, a tall plant with rigid spiny leaves,..with yellow florets and scarlet involucral scales. 1906 F. Blersch Handbk. Agric. S. Afr. 144 Mexican poppy or yellow poppy, usually called Mexican thistle at the cape. 1951 T. H. Kearney et al. Flowering Plants & Ferns Arizona (ed. 2) 624 Eryngium heterophyllum...Known locally as Mexican-thistle. The flowers are pale blue. 1992 Los Angeles Times 18 Mar. e1/2 Wildflowers have texture, form, shape, and colour... The Mexican thistle is one of my favorites—you only find them in West Texas—sort of a rich purple. Mexican thistle Mexican thistle n. a prickly composite plant, Erythrolæna conspicua, cultivated in gardens, having yellow florets surrounded with scarlet involucral scales. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > thistles thistlec725 carduea1398 wolf's-thistlea1400 cardoona1425 wolf-thistle1526 cotton-thistle1548 gum-thistle1548 oat thistle1548 black chameleon1551 ixia1551 Saint Mary thistle1552 milk thistle1562 cow-thistle1565 bedeguar1578 carline1578 silver thistle1578 white chameleon1578 globe thistle1582 ball thistle1597 down thistle1597 friar's crown1597 lady's thistle1597 gummy thistle1598 man's blood1601 musk thistle1633 melancholy thistle1653 Scotch thistle1660 boar-thistle1714 spear- thistle1753 gentle thistle1760 woolly thistle1760 wool-thistle1769 bur-thistlea1796 Canada thistle1796 pine thistle1807 plume thistle1814 melancholy plume thistle1825 woolly-headed thistle1843 dog thistle1845 dwarf thistle1846 welted thistle1846 pixie glove1858 Mexican thistle1866 Syrian thistle1866 bull thistle1878 fish belly1878 fish-bone-thistle1882 green thistle1882 herringbone thistle1884 Californian thistle1891 winged thistle1915 fish-thistles- 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 468 E[rythrolæna] conspicua..was introduced to English gardens about 1838, and is commonly known as the Scarlet Mexican Thistle. < as lemmas |
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