| 单词 | redroot pigweed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasredroot pigweed redroot n. chiefly North American any of various plants whose roots are red or yield a red pigment; esp. (a) New Jersey tea, Ceanothus americanus (family Rhamnaceae); (also, with distinguishing word) any of the other shrubs of this genus; †(b) bloodroot, Sanguinaria canadensis (family Papaveraceae), also called Indian puccoon (obsolete); (c) a swamp plant, Lachnanthes caroliniana (family Haemodoraceae), with hairy yellow flowers, also called paint-root; †(d) corn gromwell, Buglossoides arvensis (family Boraginaceae) (obsolete); (e) (more fully redroot pigweed) a kind of amaranth, Amaranthus retroflexus. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Liliaceae family or plants > [noun] > other plants one-blade1578 one-leaf1578 spiderwort1597 star of Bethlehem1629 ague-grass1687 unifoil1688 redroot1709 bellwort1785 eucomisc1804 uvularia1836 paintroot1853 twisted stalk1856 Barbados onion1866 fly-poison1866 shepherd's joy1884 onion weed1909 mondo1956 the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > non-British shrubs > [noun] > North-American > ceanothus or red-root redroot1709 Jersey tea1759 New Jersey tea1759 New Jersey tea1760 spirit weed1864 myrtle1880 ceanothus1882 buck's-eye1883 red-heart1911 1709 J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 78 The Red-Root whose Leaf is like Spear-mint, is good for..sore Mouths. 1740 P. Collinson Let. 22 July in J. Bartram Corr. (1992) 137 I am in doubt about the Red Root. Don't know what it is unless the Pecune an Indian name. 1803 A. F. M. Willich & J. Mease Domest. Encycl. (Amer. ed.) IV. 442/1 Sanguinaria Canadensis, called commonly Puccoon, blood-wort, red-root, Indian paint, turmeric. 1848 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. 481 Lachnanthes, Ell. Red-root. 1851 J. F. W. Johnston Notes N. Amer. xi. 305 The Lithospermum arvense..—called in North America by the various names of pigeon-weed, red-root, steen-crout.., [etc.]—is said to be a European importation. 1872 1st Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1871–2 268 The green amaranth or red-root..[will] fully perfect its seeds. 1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 114/2 Red-root, Box-leaved, Ceanothus buxifolius. 1931 M. Grieve Mod. Herbal II. 461/1 Lachnanthes... The rhizome..bears a large number of long, coarse, somewhat waxy, deep-red roots, yielding a red dye, to which its popular names of Paintroot and Redroot are due. 1980 A. Bliss N. Amer. Dye Plants 206 Redroot Pigweed. Amaranthus retroflexus... The taproot, though a deep red color, gave lighter versions of these colors gained by using the rest of the plant in August. 2005 D. J. Leopold Native Plants of Northeast 156/1 Another Ceanothus in our region is prairie-redroot (C. herbaceus), which is similar [to C. americanus] except that it has narrower leaves. < as lemmas |
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