| 单词 | mother of thyme |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmother of thyme mother of thyme n. (also mother of time) now chiefly North American any of several thymes or related plants, esp. (a) wild thyme, Thymus polytrichus; (b) English regional (Somerset), basil thyme, Acinos arvensis. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > thyme or wild thyme brotherwortOE puliol mountainc1300 thyme1398 pelletera1400 petergrassa1425 serpola1425 running thyme1548 serpille1558 pellamountain1575 creeping thyme1597 mother of thyme1597 serpolet1693 shepherd's thyme1857 mountain puliol1908 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 457 Wild Time is called..in English..Mother of Time, and our Ladies Bedstrawe. 1693 S. Dale Pharmacologia 234 Serpullum vulgare,..Mother of Thyme. 1794 W. Hutchinson Hist. Cumberland II. 525 Upon the banks of Eden grows an herb called mother of thyme, said to be medicinal. 1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names 343 Mother of Thyme, Calamintha Acinos, Clairv.—Som[erset]. 1976 Hortus Third (L. H. Bailey Hortorium) 1111/2 [Thymus] praecox Opiz... Mother-of-thyme. < as lemmas |
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