| 单词 | mountain bluet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmountain bluet a. The annual cornflower, Centaurea cyanus. Also: (more fully mountain bluet) the perennial cornflower, C. montana, of southern Europe. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > composite flowers > corn-flower bluebottle?a1450 bluet?a1450 blue poppya1500 hawdod?1523 blue-blaw1538 cornflower1578 blue bonnet1777 blue cap1821 French pink1854 ?a1450 J. Arderne in 17th Internat. Congr. Med. (1914) xxiii. 109 (MED) In fraunce they callene herbes these names..Blewet idem est. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique Blue-Bottle, or Bluet, a Plant of which the small ones have blue Flowers, made use of by Children to make Crowns or Chaplets of: it grows amongst Wheat and other Corn. 1841 J. W. Loudon Ladies' Compan. to Flower Garden 30/1 Bluets.—See Centaurea. 1884 R. Folkard Plant Lore, Legends & Lyrics 278 The Centaury is known as the Hurt-sickle, because it turns the edges of the reapers' sickles: its other familiar names are Bluebottle, Blue-blow, Bluet, and Corn-flower. 1919 Addisonia 4 57 Centaurea Montana... Mountain Bluet... Native of Europe. 1950 S. L. Emsweller Growing Ann. Flowering Plants (rev. ed.) 10 Cornflower is also known as bachelor's-button, bluebottle, ragged sailor, kaiserblume, and sometimes, erroneously, as ‘ragged-robin’ and ‘bluet’. 2012 K. D. Norris Guide Bearded Irises xi. 318 The reds of lupines and Oriental poppies..or the blues of mountain bluets (Centaurea montana) and bluestars. < as lemmas |
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