单词 | bindi-eye |
释义 | bindi-eyen. The popular name in Australia of a small perennial herb, Calotis cuneifolia, with burr-like fruit. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > non-British plants or herbs > [noun] > Australasian > other Australian plants lechenaultia1814 spear-grass1847 Spaniard1851 acroclinium1852 fuchsia1866 scrub vine1866 bayonet grass1868 Scotchman1872 Queensland hemp1876 Spanish soldier1901 bindi-eye1911 scab weed1927 1911 C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling v. 50 They swung their legs over the saddle and rode off over the grass and the twigs and the bindyi. 1923 Census Plants of Victoria & Vernacular Names 64 Calotis cuneifolia..Bindi-eye. N.W. 1925 Austral. Encycl. I. 231/2 Calotis... C. cuneifolia (with blue flowers) and C. lappulacea (with yellow flowers) are known in the west as bindieyes (or bindeïs—the spelling is doubtful). Their burr-like flower-heads become entangled by the barbed bristles in the wool of sheep. 1934 Bulletin (Sydney) 13 June 19/3 Bindei burr, which was one of their favourite foods. 1941 K. Tennant Battlers xiii. 147 Some comfortable little parking-place that was neither..full of bindi-eyes and other assorted prickles, nor the home of ants. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1911 |
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