| 单词 | poor man's weather-glass |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspoor man's weather-glass poor man's weather-glass n. scarlet pimpernel, Anagallis arvensis, the flowers of which close in dull or rainy conditions. ΚΠ 1816 P. Keith Syst. Physiol. Bot. II. 315 The Anagallis arvensis, or Poor Man's Weather-glass. 1830 W. J. Hooker Brit. Flora 87 A[nagallis] arvénsis, Linn. (scarlet Pimpernel or Poor Man's Weatherglass). 1847 Nat. Cycl. I. 661 The Pimpernel, or ‘Poor Man's Weather-Glass’, so called because its flowers..refuse to expand in rainy weather. 1918 W. Graveson Brit. Wild Flowers (1919) xxii. 212 We will end our list of the flowers growing among the corn with the Scarlet Pimpernel—the Poor-Man's Weather-glass and the Shepherd's Warning of country folk. 1981 H. Leake & D. Leake Wildflowers of Ozarks 113 Scarlet Pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis)..its scientific name is Greek, meaning, ‘to delight in again from the field,’ referring to its habit of closing, when a cloud obscures the sun... For this reason it is called also ‘poor man's weatherglass’. < as lemmas |
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