单词 | prairie dock |
释义 | > as lemmasprairie dock prairie dock n. (a) = prairie burdock n.; (b) a North American feverfew, Parthenium integrifolium. ΚΠ 1838 I. A. Lapham Catal. Plants Milwaukee 13 Silphium gumni erum. terebinthenaceum [sic], Prairie dock. 1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. II. 383/2 Prairie dock, Parthenium integrifolium. 1908 B. L. Robinson & M. L. Fernald Gray's New Man. Bot. (ed. 7) 825 S. terebenthinaceum Jacq. (Prairie Dock.)... Prairies and oak-openings, Ont. and O. to Minn., and southw. 1949 Chicago Tribune 14 Oct. 12/4 You can see the tall, brown stalks of the prairie dock standing erect but devoid of their bright yellow flowers. 2002 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 12 Sept. b6/1 The prairie dock rises like big green spears through the surrounding knee-high grasses. < as lemmas |
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