| 单词 | poor man's pepper |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspoor man's pepper poor man's pepper n. any of various plants having a peppery taste; esp. (a) biting stonecrop, Sedum acre; (b) pepperwort ( Lepidium species), esp. dittander, L. latifolium. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > leaf vegetables > [noun] > cress cressa700 town cresseOE nasturtiumOE watercressa1400 cresson1657 tongue-grass1726 poor man's pepper1738 mustard and cress1808 fen-cress1818 Para cress1857 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > leaf vegetables > cress cressa700 town cresseOE fen-cressc1000 well-cressOE nasturtiumOE watercressc1300 garth-cress?14.. watercress?a1450 women's meadwort?a1450 garden cressa1500 peppergrass?a1500 nosewort1563 nosesmart1589 water-rocket1605 nosewort1608 well grassa1646 cresson1657 water grass1708 tongue-grass1726 poor man's pepper1738 marsh-rocket1739 passerage1879 1738 G. C. Deering Catalogus Stirpium 203 Wall-pepper, or Stone crop, by some called Poor Man's Pepper. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 567 Lepidium latifolium... Poor-man's Pepper, Common Dittander. 1832 E. Lankester Veg. Substances Food 195 Dittander..The leaves..are..hot and acrid..whence..the name of ‘poor man's pepper’. 1858 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 1005/2 Poor Man's Pepper, a common name for the Polygonum hydropiper. 1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Poor Man's Pepper, (1) Lepidium campestre. Warw. (2) Sedum acre. Notts. 1968 R. T. Peterson & M. McKenny Field Guide Wildflowers Northeastern & North-central N. Amer. 82 Poor-man's-pepper, Peppergrass. Lepidium virginicum. 1993 Toronto Star (Nexis) 2 May (Homes section) GG Shepherd's purse is also known as ‘poor man's pepper’, because the dried seed pods can be used as seasonings in soups and stews. < as lemmas |
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