| 单词 | miss willmott's ghost |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMiss Willmott's ghost Miss Willmott's ghost n. [with reference to Ellen Ann Willmott (1858–1934), English horticulturist, who was reputedly in the habit of sowing the plant in gardens as a memento of her visits (see quot. 1956; compare also quot. 1974)] a tall biennial Caucasian eryngium, Eryngium giganteum, grown for its silvery-green flower heads. ΚΠ 1956 A. M. Coats Flowers & their Hist. 89 The biennial sea-holly..has a spectral look in the twilight which might well justify its name of Miss Willmott's Ghost. It is said that when visiting gardens, Ellen Willmott used surreptitiously to drop a few seeds of this plant here and there, to surprise the owners in due course. 1974 R. L. Fox Variations on Garden 127 It is also called Miss Willmott's Ghost, Miss Willmott being a former plantswoman of the home counties with a tongue, and tastes, as sharp as a thistle's spine. 1998 B. Chatto Garden Notebk. 270 Sometimes I have bleached the large prickly heads of Eryngium giganteum, known as ‘Miss Willmott's Ghost’. < as lemmas |
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