单词 | monkshood |
释义 | monkshoodn. 1. Any of various poisonous plants constituting the Eurasian and North American genus Aconitum (family Ranunculaceae), characterized by petaloid sepals and a showy helmet-shaped uppermost sepal; spec. A. napellus, with violet-blue flowers, which is native to Europe (including Britain) and has long been grown for ornament. Cf. wolf's-bane n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > [noun] > aconite or wolf's bane monk's cowl1548 wolf's-bane1548 flint-wort1567 libardine1567 aconite1569 wolf's-wort1575 napellus1576 monkshood1578 napelo1580 helmet-flower1597 scorpion1601 napell1605 wolfwort1611 monk's-head1682 panther's bane1712 blue rocketa1825 bikh1830 friar's cap1830 fox-bane1840 Turk's cap1854 Adam and Eve1879 face-in-hood1886 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. lxxix. 427 Blew Woolfs bane, or Monkes Hoode,..is small... The flowers be as litle hoodes. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 823 This kind of Woolfs bane called Napellus verus, in English Helmet flower, or the great Munks hood. 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole 215 Napellus verus flore cæruleo, Blew Helmet flower or Monkes hood. 1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. 805 The juice, fruit, and substance of Napellus [margin or Monks-hood] taken inwardly, killeth a man the same day. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I Aconitum, the large blue Wolf's-bane, or Monk's-hood. 1745 Gentleman's Mag. June 309/2 The case of aconitum, our monks-hood, is much the same, poisonous plants killing by a like operation. 1817 A. Eaton Man. Bot. 61 Aconitum..napellus, (monk's hood). 1864 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. ii. 128 Monkshood is very poisonous, and the root has been mistaken for Horseradish,..with fatal result. 1912 J. W. White Flora of Bristol 130 Monkshood occurs..on riverbanks in East and South Somerset, as far down as the Dorset border. 1933 A. M. Lindbergh Let. 17 Aug. in Locked Rooms & Open Doors (1974) 90 We circle over the village, wave at the little house with its blue monkshood, and then over Reykjavik. 1997 Guardian 4 Jan. (Weekend Suppl.) 34/4 Deep blue monkshoods, cultivars of Aconitum carmichaelii, are strong features in the autumn garden. a. Any of the larkspurs (genus Consolida). Obsolete. ΚΠ 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 924 In English Larkes spur..and Munkes hoode. 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole Table Monkes hoode, or Larkes spurs. 1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Monkeshood, a kind of flower called in Latin Consolida Regalis. b. The plant Dutchman's breeches, Dicentra spectabilis. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 750/2 Monkshood, Dielytra Cucullaria. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > muscles of specific parts > [noun] > muscles of neck gullet-lurker1615 monkshood1615 rhomboides1615 platysma1684 scalenus1704 trapezius muscle1704 trigeminus1706 rhomboid muscle1732 splenius1732 rhomboideus1754 omohyoideus1793 rhomboid1801 sternocleidomastoid1807 scalene muscle1827 complexus1828 omohyoid1846 omothyroid1890 traps1956 scalene1978 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 773 The second is called Cucullaris or the Monkes-hood..Galen calleth it Trapezius or the Table-muscle. 1683 A. Snape Anat. Horse iv. xxii. 193 The Cucullaris or Monk's Hood. Compounds monkshood moth n. rare the golden plusia, Polychrysia moneta, a gold-coloured noctuid moth of Europe and western Asia whose larvae feed on the leaves and buds of monkshood and delphinium. ΚΠ 1903 W. F. Kirby European Butterflies & Moths (rev. ed.) Pl. xli (caption) Plusia Moneta—Monkshood Moth. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1578 |
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