| 单词 | rattlesnake master |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrattlesnake master rattlesnake master n. (also rattlesnake's master) any of various North American plants formerly used to treat rattlesnake bites, esp. (a) blazing star (genus Liatris, family Asteraceae ( Compositae)); (b) a plant of the genus Eryngium (family Apiaceae ( Umbelliferae)), esp. E. yuccifolium. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > liatris rattlesnake master1806 liatris1811 gayfeather1845 vanilla plant1856 1806 Farmer's Cal. sig. D4 Notwithstanding a free use of sweet oil, plantane, hoarhound, prenanthet alba, called here rattlesnake's master, &c. the swelling and pain progressed. 1835 C. J. Latrobe Rambler in N. Amer. I. 126 Everywhere among the long grass, the Liatris, or rattlesnake's-master shoots up, and displays its spike of red flowers. 1856 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (ed. 2) 151 E[ryngium] yuccæfolium (Rattlesnake-Master, Button Snake-root). 1943 R. Peattie Great Smokies & Blue Ridge 189 Thus a little orchid, the rattlesnake plantain, with net-veined leaves, looks enough like a snakeskin to suggest that it may be ‘rattlesnake master’ or cure for snake bites. 1998 New Scientist 11 July 16/1 The fibres used to make the woven shoes all came from the leaves of a yucca-like plant called the rattlesnake master, which still grows in the south-eastern US. < as lemmas |
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