| 单词 | bachelor's buttons |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbachelor's buttons bachelor's buttons n. (also bachelors' buttons) Herbalism a name given to various flowers of round or button-like form; chiefly to certain cultivated double varieties of wild flowers. Originally and commonly, the double variety of a common yellow buttercup, Ranunculus acris; also the Tansy. white bachelor's buttons: originally a double-flowered white Ranunculus ( R. aconitifolius); also Double White Campion ( Lychnis vespertina), Double Sneezewort ( Achillæa Ptarmica), Double Feverfew ( Pyrethrum Parthenium). red bachelor's buttons: Double Red Campion ( Lychnis diurna), some species of Scabious and of Centaurea, the Ragged Robin ( Lychnis Flos-cuculi), etc. See Britten and Holland Plant Names (1878). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > buttercup and allied flowers > allied flowers githa1382 nigellaa1398 gollana1400 pilewort?a1425 gold-knop1538 fig-wort1548 lucken gowan1548 melanthion1559 gold crap1571 bachelor's buttons1578 celandine1578 gold cup1578 Goldilocks1578 nigel1578 nigelweed1578 troll flower1578 peppergrass1587 golden cup1589 globe crowfoot1597 globeflower1597 winter aconite1597 kiss-me-twice-before-I-rise1664 devil-in-a-bush1722 globe ranunculus1731 turban1760 love-in-a-mist1787 love-in-a-puzzle1824 fair-grass1825 water buttercup1831 golden knobs1835 ficary1848 New Year's gift1856 bishop wort1863 fennel-flower1863 golden ball1875 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 422 The double Goldcuppes are..called..Bachelers Buttons. 1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. B2v The Batchelers buttons, whose vertue is to make wanton maidens weepe. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 810 The great double Crowfoote or Batchelers Buttons, hath manie iagged leaues of a deepe greene colour. 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole v. 11 Batchelours' buttons, both white and red, are kindes of wilde Campions of a very double forme. 1872 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. (new ed.) i. vii. 86 If you compare a Bachelor's Button with a wild Buttercup. < as lemmas |
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