| 单词 | bastard toad-flax |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbastard toad-flax A popular name of the European plant Linaria vulgaris; hence extended as a generic name to other species of Linaria, as Ivy-leaved Toad-flax, L. Cymbalaria, Purple T., L. purpurea. bastard toad-flax, a name for Thesium linophyllum, and the American genus Comandra. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Scrophulariaceae (figwort and allies) > [noun] > toadflax or cancer-wort wild flaxa1400 cankerwortc1400 sulfc1450 linary1548 gall-wort1577 herb fluellin1578 toad-flax1578 cancerwort1597 flax-weed1597 linaria1597 butter and eggs1756 fluellin1756 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. liv. 79 Stanworte, wilde flaxe, or Tode flax, hath small, slender, blackish stalkes. 1630 M. Drayton Muses Elizium iii. 30 By Toadflax which your Nose may tast, If you haue a minde to cast. 1776 J. Lee Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) 353/1 Toad Flax, Antirrhinum. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Toadflax. Bastard, Thesium linophyllum; also an American name for Comandra. 1868 J. T. Burgess Eng. Wild Flowers 211 The ‘butter-and-eggs’ of the country folk—the Yellow Toadflax. 1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Theophrastus Such ii. 50 A crumbling bit of wall where the delicate ivy-leaved toad-flax hangs its light branches. 1893 ‘Q’ Delectable Duchy 21 A round stone wall, over which the toad-flax spread in a tangle. < as lemmas |
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