pheasant's eyen.

Brit.

/ˈfɛzntsʌɪ/, U.S.

/ˈfɛzntsˌaɪ/

Forms:

α. 1700s– pheasant eye.

β. 1700s– pheasant's eye.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pheasant n., eye n.¹

Etymology: Originally < pheasant n. + eye n.¹ In β forms < the genitive of pheasant n. + eye n.¹Originally with reference to the darker centre or eye of the flowers. Compare pheasant-eyed adj. and partridge eye n.

1. Any of various garden pinks having flowers with a dark centre. Chiefly attributive in pheasant's eye pink. Now rare or historical.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > pinks or carnations

gillyflower1517

carnation1538

clove gillyflower1538

incarnation1538

William1538

pink1566

John1572

Indian eye1573

sops-in-wine1573

sweet John1573

sweet-william1573

tuft gillyflower1573

Colmenier1578

small honesty1578

tol-me-neer1578

London tuft1597

maidenly pink1597

mountain pink1597

clove-carnation1605

musk-gillyflower1607

London pride1629

pride of London1629

maiden pink1650

Indian pink1664

Spanish pink1664

pheasant's eye pink1718

flake1727

flame1727

picotee1727

old man's head1731

painted lady1731

piquet1731

China-pink1736

clove1746

wild pink1753

lime-wort1777

matted thrift1792

clove-pink1837

Cheddar Pink1843

Dianthus1849

bunch pink1857

perpetual-flowering carnation1861

cliff pink1863

meadow pink1866

musk carnation1866

Jack1873

wax-pink1891

Malmaison1892

grenadin1904

1718 R. Bradley New Improvem. Planting & Gardening: Pt. 2 (ed. 2) 89 The Pinks most commonly Cultivated in Gardens are the Red Double-Pink, the White Double-Pink, the Double-Phæasant-Eye-Pink, [etc.].

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. App. Pheasant's-eye Pink.

1792 J. Maddock Florist's Directory Introd. 15 The improved varieties of what were formerly called Pheasant Eyes, are the subject of that part of the following work where Pinks are treated of.

1824 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening (ed. 2) iii. ii. 860 The pink is considered..to have proceeded from D. deltoides,..and the pheasant-eye pinks from D. plumarius.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 398/1 In Britain the following [Dianthus species] occur:..D. plumarius, or Pheasant's Eye.

1989 Observer 25 June (Colour Suppl.) 53/3 By the end of the 18th century, pheasant's eyes had spawned the glamorous laced pinks.

2. In early use: the ornamental annual plant (and occasional cornfield weed) Adonis annua, having crimson flowers with a black centre. Later also (frequently with distinguishing word): any of various other members of the genus Adonis (family Ranunculaceae); esp. (more fully yellow pheasant's eye) the yellow-flowered perennial plant A. vernalis. Cf. Adonis n. 2.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > buttercup and allied flowers > delphinium or larkspur

red maytheeOE

brown maythec1450

lark's foota1500

red maidweed1548

consound1578

lark's claw1578

larkspur1578

ox-eye1578

red camomile1578

Adonis1597

lark-heel1597

lark's toes1597

monkshood1597

rose-a-ruby1597

delphinium1666

pheasant's eye1727

red Morocco1760

rocket larkspur1778

blue rocket larkspur1784

bee-larkspur1846

1727 J. Laurence New Syst. Agric. (Dublin ed.) 286/3 Annual Flowers from Seed... Pheasant's Eye.

1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum Adonis-flower, or Pheasant's-eye, is Flos Adonis... It grows about half a Foot high, with fine cut Leaves, and Blossoms of a beautiful Scarlet Colour.

1777 W. Curtis Flora Londinensis I. Pl. 106 The Pheasant's eye..is one of those plants which are annually cried about our streets under the name of red Morocco.

1854 S. Thomson Wanderings among Wild Flowers (ed. 4) iii. 209 The pheasant's eye,..with its bright scarlet flowers.

1970 J. McPhee Crofter & Laird 41 We just go out for a wee walk and see the wild flowers... Daisies, celandines, sea pinks, heath orchis, pheasant's eyes, wild iris, whin, broom, meadow rue.

1992 Private Eye 13 Mar. 13/2 Familiar weeds such as cornflower, corn cockle, rough poppy, pheasant's eye and shepherd's needle were bordering on extinction until the Game Conservancy started introducing ‘headlands’ of farmer-free acres.

2001 Homestyle Apr. 58/2 The earliest perennial, yellow pheasant's eye, hugs the ground.

3. The narcissus Narcissus poeticus, which has a fragrant white flower with a flat, yellow, crimson-edged corona; esp. the variety N. poeticus var. recurvus, with strongly reflexed perianth segments. Now usually more fully pheasant's eye narcissus. Also called poet's narcissus.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > daffodil and allied flowers > daffodil or narcissus

narcissusOE

daffodil1548

laus tibi1548

affodill1551

primrose peerless1578

narciss1586

jonquil1629

Spanish trumpet1664

hoop-petticoat1731

poet's narcissus?1786

poet's daffodil1798

Queen Anne's double jonquil1806

polyanthus narcissus1841

tazetta1847

sweet Nancy1848

polyanth narcissus1856

pheasant's eye1872

peerless primrose1884

Tenby daffodil1884

Queen Anne's daffodil1889

poetaz1906

1872 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. May 362/2 The Pheasant's eye (Narcissus poeticus).

1889 Harper's Mag. Feb. 367/1 The daffodil, the ‘pheasant-eye’, and the ‘hoop-petticoat’ are all narcissuses.

1898 Westm. Gaz. 30 Aug. 2/1 The ‘pheasant's eye’ narcissus grows wild upon these vine~covered hill-sides.

1900 W. Robinson Eng. Flower Garden (ed. 8) 677/1 The form usually met with early in May is N. recurvus, the Pheasant's-eye of cottage gardens.

1914 F. E. Fritsch & E. J. Salisbury Introd. Study Plants xviii. 232 (caption) Pheasant's-eye Narcissus (tubular type), showing hypogyny and epigyny.

1963 W. Blunt Flowers & Village 8 Pheasant's Eye narcissi, for which I then paid ninepence a dozen, are now eight shillings.

1977 R. Genders Scented Flora of World 322/2 The old Pheasant Eye narcissus..was not introduced into Britain until after Waterloo.

1999 BBC Gardeners' World Apr. 56/2 Others [sc. spring bulbs] to try... Pheasant's eye narcissus, hoop petticoat daffodils and bluebells.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pheasants eye
释义	pheasant's eyen. Brit. /ˈfɛzntsʌɪ/, U.S. /ˈfɛzntsˌaɪ/ Forms: α. 1700s– pheasant eye. β. 1700s– pheasant's eye. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pheasant n., eye n.¹ Etymology: Originally < pheasant n. + eye n.¹ In β forms < the genitive of pheasant n. + eye n.¹Originally with reference to the darker centre or eye of the flowers. Compare pheasant-eyed adj. and partridge eye n. 1. Any of various garden pinks having flowers with a dark centre. Chiefly attributive in pheasant's eye pink. Now rare or historical. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > pinks or carnations gillyflower1517 carnation1538 clove gillyflower1538 incarnation1538 William1538 pink1566 John1572 Indian eye1573 sops-in-wine1573 sweet John1573 sweet-william1573 tuft gillyflower1573 Colmenier1578 small honesty1578 tol-me-neer1578 London tuft1597 maidenly pink1597 mountain pink1597 clove-carnation1605 musk-gillyflower1607 London pride1629 pride of London1629 maiden pink1650 Indian pink1664 Spanish pink1664 pheasant's eye pink1718 flake1727 flame1727 picotee1727 old man's head1731 painted lady1731 piquet1731 China-pink1736 clove1746 wild pink1753 lime-wort1777 matted thrift1792 clove-pink1837 Cheddar Pink1843 Dianthus1849 bunch pink1857 perpetual-flowering carnation1861 cliff pink1863 meadow pink1866 musk carnation1866 Jack1873 wax-pink1891 Malmaison1892 grenadin1904 1718 R. Bradley New Improvem. Planting & Gardening: Pt. 2 (ed. 2) 89 The Pinks most commonly Cultivated in Gardens are the Red Double-Pink, the White Double-Pink, the Double-Phæasant-Eye-Pink, [etc.]. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. App. Pheasant's-eye Pink. 1792 J. Maddock Florist's Directory Introd. 15 The improved varieties of what were formerly called Pheasant Eyes, are the subject of that part of the following work where Pinks are treated of. 1824 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening (ed. 2) iii. ii. 860 The pink is considered..to have proceeded from D. deltoides,..and the pheasant-eye pinks from D. plumarius. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 398/1 In Britain the following [Dianthus species] occur:..D. plumarius, or Pheasant's Eye. 1989 Observer 25 June (Colour Suppl.) 53/3 By the end of the 18th century, pheasant's eyes had spawned the glamorous laced pinks. 2. In early use: the ornamental annual plant (and occasional cornfield weed) Adonis annua, having crimson flowers with a black centre. Later also (frequently with distinguishing word): any of various other members of the genus Adonis (family Ranunculaceae); esp. (more fully yellow pheasant's eye) the yellow-flowered perennial plant A. vernalis. Cf. Adonis n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > buttercup and allied flowers > delphinium or larkspur red maytheeOE brown maythec1450 lark's foota1500 red maidweed1548 consound1578 lark's claw1578 larkspur1578 ox-eye1578 red camomile1578 Adonis1597 lark-heel1597 lark's toes1597 monkshood1597 rose-a-ruby1597 delphinium1666 pheasant's eye1727 red Morocco1760 rocket larkspur1778 blue rocket larkspur1784 bee-larkspur1846 1727 J. Laurence New Syst. Agric. (Dublin ed.) 286/3 Annual Flowers from Seed... Pheasant's Eye. 1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum Adonis-flower, or Pheasant's-eye, is Flos Adonis... It grows about half a Foot high, with fine cut Leaves, and Blossoms of a beautiful Scarlet Colour. 1777 W. Curtis Flora Londinensis I. Pl. 106 The Pheasant's eye..is one of those plants which are annually cried about our streets under the name of red Morocco. 1854 S. Thomson Wanderings among Wild Flowers (ed. 4) iii. 209 The pheasant's eye,..with its bright scarlet flowers. 1970 J. McPhee Crofter & Laird 41 We just go out for a wee walk and see the wild flowers... Daisies, celandines, sea pinks, heath orchis, pheasant's eyes, wild iris, whin, broom, meadow rue. 1992 Private Eye 13 Mar. 13/2 Familiar weeds such as cornflower, corn cockle, rough poppy, pheasant's eye and shepherd's needle were bordering on extinction until the Game Conservancy started introducing ‘headlands’ of farmer-free acres. 2001 Homestyle Apr. 58/2 The earliest perennial, yellow pheasant's eye, hugs the ground. 3. The narcissus Narcissus poeticus, which has a fragrant white flower with a flat, yellow, crimson-edged corona; esp. the variety N. poeticus var. recurvus, with strongly reflexed perianth segments. Now usually more fully pheasant's eye narcissus. Also called poet's narcissus. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > daffodil and allied flowers > daffodil or narcissus narcissusOE daffodil1548 laus tibi1548 affodill1551 primrose peerless1578 narciss1586 jonquil1629 Spanish trumpet1664 hoop-petticoat1731 poet's narcissus?1786 poet's daffodil1798 Queen Anne's double jonquil1806 polyanthus narcissus1841 tazetta1847 sweet Nancy1848 polyanth narcissus1856 pheasant's eye1872 peerless primrose1884 Tenby daffodil1884 Queen Anne's daffodil1889 poetaz1906 1872 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. May 362/2 The Pheasant's eye (Narcissus poeticus). 1889 Harper's Mag. Feb. 367/1 The daffodil, the ‘pheasant-eye’, and the ‘hoop-petticoat’ are all narcissuses. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 30 Aug. 2/1 The ‘pheasant's eye’ narcissus grows wild upon these vine~covered hill-sides. 1900 W. Robinson Eng. Flower Garden (ed. 8) 677/1 The form usually met with early in May is N. recurvus, the Pheasant's-eye of cottage gardens. 1914 F. E. Fritsch & E. J. Salisbury Introd. Study Plants xviii. 232 (caption) Pheasant's-eye Narcissus (tubular type), showing hypogyny and epigyny. 1963 W. Blunt Flowers & Village 8 Pheasant's Eye narcissi, for which I then paid ninepence a dozen, are now eight shillings. 1977 R. Genders Scented Flora of World 322/2 The old Pheasant Eye narcissus..was not introduced into Britain until after Waterloo. 1999 BBC Gardeners' World Apr. 56/2 Others [sc. spring bulbs] to try... Pheasant's eye narcissus, hoop petticoat daffodils and bluebells. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1718
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