单词 | mountain dropwort |
释义 | > as lemmasmountain dropwort 1. common dropwort, field dropwort, or mountain dropwort, a plant, Spiræa Filipendula, belonging to the same genus as Meadowsweet, but scentless. Extended, with defining words, to other species of Spiræa. ΚΠ 1538 W. Turner Libellus de re Herbaria at Phellandryon Vulgus Filipendulam, & Droppewort nuncupat. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xxviii. 40 Of filipendula or Dropworte..The rootes be small & blacke, whereon is hanging certaine small knops or blacke pellets, as in the rootes of the female Pionye, sauing yt they be a great deale smaller. 1863 Buckman in Gardeners' Chron. 23 May 493 The Field Dropwort is a denizen for the most part of dry uplands on calcareous soils. 1879 M. Plues Rambles in Search of Wild Flowers (ed. 3) 102 The Willow-leaved Drop-wort (S. salicifolia) is..frequent in shrubberies. mountain dropwort mountain dropwort n. see dropwort n. 1. < as lemmas |
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