单词 | polytrichon |
释义 | † polytrichonn. Obsolete. 1. Perhaps: the hop plant, Humulus lupulus, or bryony, Bryonia alba. rare. ΚΠ OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) lii. 96 Ðeos wyrt ðe man politricum [?a1200 Harl. 6258B politricum] & oðrum naman hymele nemneð byþ cenned on ealdum husstedum & eac on fuhtum stowum. 2. Either of two ferns (often not clearly distinguished): maidenhair, Adiantum capillus-veneris (= maidenhair n. 1(a)), and maidenhair spleenwort, Asplenium trichomanes. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > ferns > [noun] > maidenhair fern waterwortOE maidenhairc1300 adianthus1526 maidenweed1526 adiantum1548 coliander1548 polytrichon1550 Venus' hair1551 well-fern1565 Our Lady's hair1597 capillary1646 maidenhair fern1833 1550 J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurgerye at Gallitricum Some call polytrichon Saxifrage, and it hathe rounde leaues, and broder then callitrichon. 1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 24v In other ryfts grew Mowse-eare, Polypodie, Adientus or Lady hayre, the iagged and curled Cithracus the knotted Lunarie minor, Prickmaddam, Polytricon, or goulden lockes and such like. 1634 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World (new ed.) I. vi. xxi. 127 Some call it Callitrichon, others Polytrichon, both which names were giuen it for the effect that it worketh. For it coloreth the hair. 1658 T. Collins Choice Exper. Physick & Chirurgery 76 Ye may let him drink seven, or eight dayes together in a morning a good draght of the decoction Politrichon or maidenhair. 1705 W. Yworth Compl. Distiller 106 Citrons, Scariol, of each six Drachms, Polytricon,..Endive, of each four handfuls. 1791 G. Wallis Motherby's New Med. Dict. (ed. 3) 26/1 Adianthum, adiantum, maidenhair. Also called polytrichon and polytrichum. 3. The golden maidenhair or hair moss, Polytrichum commune (cf. Polytrichum n.). ΚΠ 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. lxxi. 412 Goldylockes, Polytrichon, or Golden Maydenheare. The third kind which some call Golden Polytrichon [Fr. Polytrichon doré], hath very small slender stalkes. 1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1374 This is called in English Goldilockes Polytrichon... It might also be termed Golden Mosse, or Hairie Mosse. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.OE |
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