单词 | piripiri |
释义 | piripirin. Originally New Zealand. 1. Any of several perennial trailing and creeping plants of the genus Acaena (family Rosaceae), with pinnate leaves and fruits in the form of burs; esp. A. anserinifolia of Australia and New Zealand. More fully piripiri bur. Cf. biddy-biddy n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > non-British climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > Australasian kareao1845 Kennedya1845 piripiri1853 balloon vine1889 wonga(-wonga) vine1895 Australian bluebell creeper1896 coral-pea1896 running postman1898 1853 J. D. Hooker Bot. Antarctic Voy.: Flora Novæ-Zelandiæ I. 54 Acaena Sanguisorbae..Nat. names, ‘Hutiwai’, Middle Island, Lyall; ‘Pirikahu’ and ‘Piri piri’. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 5/2 A decoction of A. Sanguisorba is used in New Zealand as tea and as a medicine. It is the Piri Piri of the natives. 1910 L. Cockayne N.Z. Plants vi. 97 A piripiri, too (Acaena glabra), is almost confined to this station. 1956 D. McClintock & R. S. R. Fitter Pocket Guide Wild Flowers 74 Pirri-pirri Bur, Acaena anserinifolia (Forster) Druce. 1980 R. J. Berry & J. L. Johnston Nat. Hist. Shetland (1986) 289 (table) Pirripirri Bur. Formerly by a roadside near Scalloway. 1998 Evening Standard (Palmerston North, N.Z.) (Nexis) 24 Feb. 14 Some New Zealand natives have found a happy new home in Britain... Piripiri burr and Campylopus introflexus are some of about a dozen naturalised aliens in England. ΚΠ 1853 J. D. Hooker Bot. Antarctic Voy.: Flora Novæ-Zelandiæ I. 241 Bolbophyllum pygmaeum..Nat. name, ‘Piri-Piri’. 1869 Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 1868 (1875) 1 208 Piri piri. Bolbophyllum [sic] pygmaeum. ΚΠ 1853 J. D. Hooker Bot. Antarctic Voy.: Flora Novæ-Zelandiæ I. 23 Pittosporum cornifolium, A. Cunn..Hab. Northern Island..Nat. name, ‘Karo’, Colenso, ‘Piri-piri’. 1889 E. H. Featon Art Album N.Z. Flora 36 The ‘Piripiri’. Peculiar to the eastern and northern coasts of the Northern Island, where it is common..on trunks of forest trees. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > non-British plants or herbs > [noun] > Australasian > piri-piri plant or burr biddy-biddy1866 piripiri1866 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 567/2 H. citriodora, the Piri-jiri of the New Zealanders, has scented leaves. 1867 J. D. Hooker Handbk. N.Z. Flora II. 767 Piri-piri, Cunn. Haloragis tenella. 1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 108/2 Piri-jiri-shrub. 5. A filmy fern, Hymenophyllum sanguinolentum, of New Zealand forests. ΚΠ 1978 Bull. Wellington Bot. Soc. No. 40. 48 The piripiri fern..is, I think in this case, Hymenophyllum sanguinolentum, though H. demissum also seems to go by this name. 1989 P. J. Brownsey & J. C. Smith-Dodsworth N.Z. Ferns 77 Piripiri... A very drought-resistant filmy fern. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1853 |
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