单词 | pellitory of the wall |
释义 | > as lemmaspellitory of the wall More fully pellitory of the wall. Either of two plants of the genus Parietaria (family Urticaceae), P. officinalis and P. judaica, both having ovate leaves and inconspicuous greenish flowers and tending to grow upon or at the foot of walls. Also (chiefly with distinguishing word): any of various other plants of the genus Parietaria, esp. (in North America) P. pennsylvanica. Cf. parietary n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Urticaceae (nettle and allies) > [noun] > pellitory of the wall parietaryc1395 pellitory of the wallc1435 wallwort1561 hammerwort1597 c1435 (c1395) G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Tale (Sloane) 581 Pellatory [v.rr. pilotory, Paritorie; c1405 Ellesmere His forheed dropped as a stillatorie Were ful of Plantayne and of Paritorie]. a1543 in A. Amherst Hist. Gardening in Eng. (1896) 75 Herbys necessary for a gardyn..Persely, Pelytor... Of the same Herbes for Sauce: Hertes tonge, Sorell, Pelytory. 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. D.iiijv Helxine or pardition is called in englishe Parietorie or Pelletorie of the wal..in frenche Du parietaire. 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong De l'Apparitoire,..an herbe called Parietory, commonly Pellitorie. 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist iii. iv. sig. Hv A good Old Woman..did cure me, With sodden Ale, and Pellitorie o' the Wall. 1670 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 5 1086 Upon this accompt he compareth together Wormwood and Pellitory on the Wall. 1703 Philos. Trans. 1702–3 (Royal Soc.) 23 1415 Two elegant Cape Plants are the beginning of this 7th Table, with a Pellitory of the Wall from the Canaries, altogether different from what we have yet seen. 1747 J. Wesley Primitive Physick 52 A Pint of juice of Pellitory of the Wall bruised in a Marble Mortar. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 210 Where the mouldering walls are seen Hung with pellitory green. 1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants Pellitory, American, Parietaria pennsylvanica..New Zealand, Parietaria debilis. 1915 F. M. Hueffer Good Soldier i. v. 79 She picked a little piece of pellitory out of the breast-high wall in front of us. 1987 Sydney Morning Herald 12 Dec. 7/7 Pellitory. A declared noxious weed only in the Sydney suburb of Mossman... Small weed with green flowers which grows between the pavement. < as lemmas |
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