| 单词 | musk mallow |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmusk mallow musk mallow n. (a) = musk okra n.; (b) a European and North African mallow of dry grassland, Malva moschata, with palmately divided leaves and typically rose-pink flowers. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > fragrant plants or plants used in perfumery > [noun] > musk-plant or -seed musk mallow1688 musk seed1712 musk okra1756 musk plant1769 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. iii. 53/1 The Aegyptian Musk Mallow Leaf is thus engraled, and so is the red berried Arrache. a1726 H. Barham Hortus Americanus (1794) 107 Musk mallow... Its leaf is like the okra... The seed of this plant smells as fine as any musk. 1771 J. Robertson Jrnl. 7 June in D. M. Henderson & J. H. Dickson Naturalist in Highlands (1994) vi. 155 On the outside of the garden at Abergaldie I saw the Sweet Cicely or Myrrh, Musk-mallow,..and Jack by the Hedge. 1820 R. Hooper Lexicon-medicum (ed. 4) 419/1 Abelmoschus. Granum moschi... The seeds of a plant called the musk-mallow, which have the flavour of musk. 1995 Countryman Summer 34 Meadowsweet, musk mallow and meadow vetchling grow among the grasses. < as lemmas |
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