单词 | orange grass |
释义 | > as lemmasorange grass orange grass n. U.S. †(a) (apparently) fine-leaved sandwort, Minuartia hybrida (obsolete); (b) a small St John's wort, Hypericum gentianoides, of eastern North America, having tiny yellow flowers and scale-like leaves; also called nit-weed, pine-weed. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Guttiferae (St. John's wort and allies) > [noun] velderudea1300 grace of God?c1400 floure jonett1423 St John's-wort?a1425 St. Peter's wort1526 hypericum1538 St John's grass1538 johnswort1710 scare-devil1751 orange grass1811 pineweed1814 nit-weed1818 guttifer1846 rose of Sharon1849 amber1861 goatweed1915 Klamath weed1922 1811 Statist. Acct. Towns & Parishes (Connecticut Acad. Arts & Sci.) I. 30/1 Arenaria..tenuifolia, orange grass. 1837 W. Darlington Flora Cestrica (ed. 2) 324 Ground Pine. Nit-Weed. Orange-grass. 1882 E. K. Godfrey Island of Nantucket 36 The orange grass with its fragrance now greeting us at every turn. 1907 A. B. Lyons Plant Names (ed. 2) 414 Sarothra... Orange-grass, Pine-weed, Bastard Gentian, Ground Pine, Nit-weed, False Johnswort. 1976 Hortus Third (L. H. Bailey Hortorium) 584/2 [Hypericum] gentianoides... Orange grass, pineweed. < as lemmas |
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