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单词 orobanche
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Orobanchen.

Brit. /ˌɒrəʊˈbaŋki/, /ˌɔːrəʊˈbaŋki/, U.S. /ˌɔroʊˈbæŋki/
Forms: 1500s 1700s Orobanch, 1500s– Orobanche.
Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin. Or (ii) a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin orobanchē; Greek ὀροβάγχη.
Etymology: < classical Latin orobanchē plant parasitic on vetch (especially the dodder Cuscuta europaea or the broomrape Orobanche crenata) or its etymon ancient Greek ὀροβάγχη ( < ὄροβος orobus n.) + ἄγχειν to strangle (see anchoic adj.); compare strangle-tare n. at strangle v. Compounds. Compare Middle French, French orobanche (1546 in Rabelais), Italian orobanche (1561–2; 1476 as †orobante).
Botany.
Any plant of the genus Orobanche, of the family Scrophulariaceae (or Orobanchaceae), comprising the broomrapes, herbaceous root-parasites with fleshy stems, scaly leaves that lack chlorophyll, and tubular flowers; (in early use) esp. greater broomrape, O. rapum-genistae, which parasitizes gorse and other shrubby leguminous plants. Also (in form Orobanche): the genus itself.Valid publication of the genus name: Linnaeus Species Plantarium (1753) II. 632.
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choke-weed1548
Orobanche1548
orobe-strangler1562
strangle-tare1562
broomrape1578
choke-wort1620
kill-herb1671
strangle-weed1693
strangle-vetch1796
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. E.viij Orobanche is so rare an herbe in Englande, that I neuer sawe it in al Englande, but in Northumberlandes... It may be of his propertie called Chokeweede, because it destroyeth and choketh the herbes that it tyeth and claspeth wyth his roote.
1597 J. Gerard Herball Table Eng. Names Strangle weede, and Strangle tare, that is Orobanch.
1694 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 279 It begins with several beautiful Orobanche's or Abortive Orchi's growing like Misseltoe upon Trees.
1754 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. III. 2288/2 Orobanche, broom-rape, in botany, a genus of the didynamia-angiospermia class of plants, the corolla of which is monopetalous and ringent.
1772 Philos. Trans. 1771 (Royal Soc.) 61 377 Orobanche... I have not seen it in this neighbourhood, where we have no broom: but it may be found at Hayes in Shropshire, with broom.
1794 T. Martyn tr. J. J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. (ed. 4) xxiii. 312 Of those [genera] with bifid calyxes, you have the Orobanche or Broom-rape.
1849 J. H. Balfour Man. Bot. 963 The stems of Orobanches have a large central cellular portion, surrounded by numerous fibro-vascular bundles.
1873 H. B. Tristram Land of Moab xiii. 249 Splendid orobanches, of two species..thrive on the roots of the Atriplex halimus.
1890 Athenæum 21 June 805/2 Specimen of an orobanche parasitic upon a pelargonium.
1926 New Phytologist 25 10 Brandt..included this species [sc. Monotropa] in the same class as the Orobanches.
1992 M. Ingrouille Diversity & Evol. Land Plants 34 The aerial shoot system of some parasitic plants such as Orobanche, and saprophytes like Monotropa, does not photosynthesize.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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