单词 | myosote |
释义 | myosoten. Now rare. A forget-me-not, esp. Myosotis scorpioides. 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 1858 G. Bentham Handbk. Brit. Flora liii. 373 Among exotic genera, Echinospermum Lappula,..which has all the appearance and the small flowers of a Myosote but with triangular, very rough nuts. 1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 414/1 The common or true Forget-me-not, the Water Myosote. 1890 R. Bridges Shorter Poems ii. 5 And laden barges float By banks of myosote. 1927–9 H. Wheeler Waverley Children's Dict. V. 2883/1 One of the best known [of the genus Myosotís] is the myosote,..the blue forget-me-not. 1969 V. Nabokov Ada iii. v. 494 The red rubber of a favorite doll remained safely decomposed among the myosotes of an unanalyzable brook. 2003 M. Barnette Dog Days & Dandelions (e-book ed.) at Myosotis In English, myosotis is sometimes called mouse-ear or myosote. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1858 |
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