| 单词 | partridge-vine |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspartridge-vine partridge-vine n. = partridgeberry n. 1(a). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > non-British medicinal trees or shrubs > wintergreen shrubs wintergreen1778 mountain tea1785 spice-berry1792 partridgeberry1814 tea-berry1818 ivory plum1828 twinberry1836 ivy-berry1840 partridge bush1843 Gaultheria1848 checker-berry1852 partridge-vine1860 snowberry1866 one-berry1873 1860 Ladies' Repository Mar. 137/2 Breathing the sweet, faint fragrance Of the hemlock and the pine, Setting my feet on the mosses And the tangled partridge-vine. 1940 Sun (Baltimore) 9 Dec. 8/4 In Christmas seasons when holly berries are comparatively scarce, the berries of the smoke bush come as a substitute, and often of the dogwood and of the partridge vines in the woodlands. 1993 T. Coffey Hist. & Folklore N. Amer. Wildflowers 231/1 Partridge-Berry, Twin-Berry. Mitchella repens... Boxberry (Mass.),... Partridge-Vine, Pheasant-Berry (Va.). < as lemmas |
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