Ballotan.

Brit.

/bəˈləʊtə/, U.S.

/bəˈloʊdə/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Ballota.

Etymology: < scientific Latin Ballota (adopted as a genus name by Linnaeus in his Species plantarum (1753) II. 582, after his earlier use in Hortus Cliffortianus (1738) 311) < post-classical Latin ballote ballote n.; compare -a suffix¹ 1. Compare earlier ballote n.

Botany.

A Eurasian genus of perennial herbs and shrubs of the family Lamiaceae ( Labiatae), several kinds of which are grown ornamentally for their silvery-grey foliage; (also, in form ballota) a plant of this genus.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > dead-nettle or hemp-nettle

blind-nettleeOE

nettleeOE

dead-nettle1398

red archangela1425

red dead-nettlea1425

archangel1440

deaf-nettlec1440

swan's tonguec1450

dea-nettle?1530

henbit1597

nettle-hemp1597

day-nettle1635

base horehound1736

Ballota1778

weasel-snout1796

hemp-nettle1801

glidewort1866

Lamium1974

1778 Encycl. Brit. II. 974/2 Ballota, White Horehound; a genus of the gymnospermia order, belonging to the didynamia class of plants.

1789 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. II 6 I have observed in the Ballota, and others of this class, that the two lower stamens, or males, become mature before the two higher.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 118 Ballota, a family of herbaceous plants belonging to the labiate order, among which they are distinguished by the strongly ten-ribbed salver-shaped calyx.

1956 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) (ed. 2) I. 232/1 Ballota... The grey woolly foliage of B. pseudodictamnus..recommends it.

1990 House & Garden Aug. 72/1 In the rose garden there are cushion of silver-leaved ballota and a trio of favourite euphorbias.

2006 Times (Nexis) 29 July (Features section) 75 The bobbly, pipe-cleaner flower stalks on grey-leaved ballota may be looking shabby... All you need to do is snip them out to freshen the effect.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	ballota
释义	Ballotan. Brit. /bəˈləʊtə/, U.S. /bəˈloʊdə/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Ballota. Etymology: < scientific Latin Ballota (adopted as a genus name by Linnaeus in his Species plantarum (1753) II. 582, after his earlier use in Hortus Cliffortianus (1738) 311) < post-classical Latin ballote ballote n.; compare -a suffix¹ 1. Compare earlier ballote n. Botany. A Eurasian genus of perennial herbs and shrubs of the family Lamiaceae ( Labiatae), several kinds of which are grown ornamentally for their silvery-grey foliage; (also, in form ballota) a plant of this genus. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > dead-nettle or hemp-nettle blind-nettleeOE nettleeOE dead-nettle1398 red archangela1425 red dead-nettlea1425 archangel1440 deaf-nettlec1440 swan's tonguec1450 dea-nettle?1530 henbit1597 nettle-hemp1597 day-nettle1635 base horehound1736 Ballota1778 weasel-snout1796 hemp-nettle1801 glidewort1866 Lamium1974 1778 Encycl. Brit. II. 974/2 Ballota, White Horehound; a genus of the gymnospermia order, belonging to the didynamia class of plants. 1789 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. II 6 I have observed in the Ballota, and others of this class, that the two lower stamens, or males, become mature before the two higher. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 118 Ballota, a family of herbaceous plants belonging to the labiate order, among which they are distinguished by the strongly ten-ribbed salver-shaped calyx. 1956 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) (ed. 2) I. 232/1 Ballota... The grey woolly foliage of B. pseudodictamnus..recommends it. 1990 House & Garden Aug. 72/1 In the rose garden there are cushion of silver-leaved ballota and a trio of favourite euphorbias. 2006 Times (Nexis) 29 July (Features section) 75 The bobbly, pipe-cleaner flower stalks on grey-leaved ballota may be looking shabby... All you need to do is snip them out to freshen the effect. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1778
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