单词 | puschkinia |
释义 | Puschkinian. A genus of the family Hyacinthaceae (or Liliaceae), comprising a single variable species, Puschkinia scilloides, which is a small spring-flowering bulb of Asia Minor and the Caucasus having distinctive pale blue or white flowers striped with dark blue; (also puschkinia) the striped squill, a cultivated variety of this often grown for ornament. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > lily and allied flowers > allied flowers dog's tooth1578 daylily1597 mountain saffron1597 phalangium1608 Savoy spiderwort1629 hemerocallis1648 tuberose1664 St Bruno's lily1706 superb lily1731 agapanthus1789 Spanish squill1790 erythronium1797 Tritoma1804 Spanish harebell1808 veltheimia1808 adder's tongue1817 bunch flower1818 Puschkinia1820 hedychium1822 eremurus1836 flame lily1841 lily pink1848 mountain spiderwort1849 lloydia1850 kniphofia1854 garland-flower1866 red-hot poker1870 swamp-lover1878 African lily1882 flame-flower1882 Scarborough lily1882 wood-lily1882 St. Bernard lily1883 torch-lily1884 rajanigandha1885 ginger lily1892 chinkerinchee1904 snow lily1907 sand lily1909 avalanche lily1912 Spanish bluebell1924 mountain lily1932 chink1949 poker1975 1820 Curtis's Bot. Mag. 48 2244 (heading) Squil-like Puschkinia. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 942/1 Puschkinia, a genus of Liliaceæ, with the habit of Scilla, but having the segments of the perianth cohering at the base, and the filaments united into a tube. 1914 G. Jekyll Colour Schemes for Flower Garden (ed. 3) 6 The colour scheme begins with the pink of Megasea ligulata..and later the blue-white of Puschkinia. 1925 A. J. Macself Bulb Gardening xi. 197 The flowers of Puschkinia are blue and white, arranged in a short close-set spike on a stalk only a few inches long. 1959 Times 22 Aug. 9/4 Most of the other small bulbs—muscari, chionodoxas, puschkinias, [etc.]..—can be grown indoors. 1992 Century Home May 69/1 While the common scilla, S. sibirica, increases too rapidly, the pale blue pushkinia [sic] P. scilloides keeps a sense of proportion. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1820 |
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