单词 | mouse-ear scorpion grass |
释义 | > as lemmasmouse-ear scorpion grass 4. A forget-me-not of the genus Myosotis; esp. (a) water forget-me-not, M. scorpioides; (b) field forget-me-not, M. arvensis. Formerly also more fully †mouse-ear scorpion grass. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > forget-me-not and allied flowers forget-me-not?1533 scorpioides1578 scorpion grass1578 scorpion-wort1578 honeywort1597 mouse-ear1597 myosotis1857 myosote1858 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 514 Pilosella flore cæruleo. Blewe Mouseare. 1648 J. Bobart Eng. Catal. at Scorpion grasse, in Catalogus Plantarum Horti Medici Oxoniensis Mouse eare scorpion gr[ass], Myosotis scorp. arvens. 1690 J. Ray Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Brit. (1724) 229 Mouse-ear Scorpion-Grass. 1776 W. Withering Bot. Arrangem. Veg. Great Brit. I. 244 Mouse-ear... Caps. with one cell. Petals cloven. 1845–50 A. H. Lincoln Familiar Lect. Bot. (new ed.) xxv. 146 The Mouse-ear (Myosotis) is valued for its medicinal properties; a species, the arvensis, or Forget-me-not, is an interesting little blue flower. 1883 ‘Ouida’ Wanda I. 157 The swollen brooks were blue with mouse-ear. 1972 Farmers & Consumers Market Bull. (Georgia Dept. Agric.) 24 May 8 Myosotis scorpiodes [sic], also known as Forget-me-not, Mouse-ear and Scorpion-grass, is a European flower which has become naturalized throughout the coastal plain states. < as lemmas |
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