| 单词 | prairie smoke |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprairie smoke prairie crocus n. chiefly Canadian the pasque flower of North America, Pulsatilla patens var. multifida, which typically has blue-violet flowers (also called prairie smoke). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > buttercup and allied flowers > anemones anemone1548 rose parsley1548 windflower1551 agrimony1578 hepatica1578 liverwort1578 noble agrimony1578 noble liverwort1578 pasque flower1578 Coventry bells1597 flaw-flower1597 herb trinity1597 pulsatilla1597 emony1644 wood-anemone1657 Robin Hood1665 poppy anemone1731 Alpine anemone1774 liverleaf1820 Japan anemone1847 Pennsylvania wind flower1869 smell fox1892 prairie smoke1893 prairie crocus1896 St. Brigid anemone1902 Japanese anemonec1908 Spanish marigold- 1896 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 9 179 Anemone Pulsatilla (?), prairie crocus, Mont., Colo., and N. Dak. 1922 A. Stringer Prairie Child 304 Prairie-crocuses [are] soft blue and lavender and sometimes mauve. 1995 Beaver Aug.–Sept. 4/1 Before long the pasture and road allowances were covered with prairie crocuses, buttercups and three-flowered avens. prairie smoke prairie smoke n. (a) the North American pasque flower, Pulsatilla patens var. multifida (see prairie crocus n.), which when flowering en masse gives the effect of a bluish haze; (b) a North American avens, Geum triflorum, esp. when in fruit (so called from the long plumose hairs on the styles). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > buttercup and allied flowers > anemones anemone1548 rose parsley1548 windflower1551 agrimony1578 hepatica1578 liverwort1578 noble agrimony1578 noble liverwort1578 pasque flower1578 Coventry bells1597 flaw-flower1597 herb trinity1597 pulsatilla1597 emony1644 wood-anemone1657 Robin Hood1665 poppy anemone1731 Alpine anemone1774 liverleaf1820 Japan anemone1847 Pennsylvania wind flower1869 smell fox1892 prairie smoke1893 prairie crocus1896 St. Brigid anemone1902 Japanese anemonec1908 Spanish marigold- 1893 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 6 136 Anemone patens, var. Nuttalliana..gosling, prairie smoke, crocus. 1952 Sun (Baltimore) 26 Feb. 10/7 The Pasqueflower..is a bluish open bell shaped wild flower of the prairies... Patches of the flower at a distance give the impression of a bluish haze. This gives rise to its more familiar name ‘prairie smoke’. 1977 J. B. Moyle & E. W. Moyle Northern Wild Flowers 69/2 Purple Avens (G[eum] triflorum). Also called Prairie Smoke... After flowering the styles elongate to form an erect brush of soft, slender plumes, the ‘Prairie Smoke’. 2005 Pioneer Press (St. Paul, Minnesota) (Nexis) 15 May f1 The seed heads of prairie smoke waved in the breeze. < as lemmas |
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