单词 | redweed |
释义 | redweedn. 1. Agriculture. The field poppy, Papaver rhoeas, regarded as an agricultural weed; (also) such weeds collectively. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > poppy and allied flowers > poppy poppyeOE wild poppya1300 red poppya1400 mecop1480 corn-rose1527 field poppy1597 redweed1609 darnel1612 cockrose?1632 canker1640 tell-love1640 rose poppy1648 erratic poppy1661 corn poppy1671 headwark1691 cop-rose1776 headachea1825 thunderbolt1847 thunder-flower1853 Iceland poppy1870 Greenland poppy1882 1609 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie vi. sig. H2 The most stinking and poysonful weeds, as redweed, marges, henbane & the like. a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 37 The most usuall and best way for tythinge of hey is..to make use of reade-weeds for wikes. 1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden iii. 6 Poppy for the most part, yet in some Countries it is called Red-weed; in others..Cheese-bouls. a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husb. (1757) II. 285 Poppy or red-weed seldom grows in the deep and wet lands of Hants. 1788 Trans. Soc. Arts 6 113 A county like this, overrun with red weeds. 1846 J. W. Loudon Brit. Wild Flowers 25 The farmers call it Red-weed, Red-cap, and Corn Rose. 1899 H. R. Haggard Farmer's Year 13 Jan. That part of the field produced more poppies than anything else—red weed we call it. 1966 M. R. Krythe All about Months 148 They often grow wild in wheat and hay fields. Since the plant is hard to get rid of, farmers sometimes call it ‘redweed’, ‘canker’, or ‘headache’. 1992 A. Thorpe Ulverton iii. 52 It is a loose, spongy ground, and Farmer Barr was of the mind that, were I to plough it up and sow it to one earth..I would have much trouble with the redweed, or poppy. 2. North American. The plant pokeweed, Phytolacca americana. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Phytolaccaceae (poke-weed and allies) > [noun] redweed1624 poke1687 phytolacca1730 pork physic1733 pokeweed1751 pokeberry1754 rivina1754 guinea-hen weed1836 hoop-withe1847 pocan1858 strong man's weed1864 ink weed1913 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia 170 Here is also frequently growing a certaine tall Plant, whose stalke being all ouer couered with a red rinde, is thereupon termed the red weed. 1668 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 3 796 There grows a Berry (by report) both in the Bermudas and New England, call'd the Summer-Island-Redweed, which Berry is as red as the Prickle-Peare. 1728 R. Bradley Dict. Bot. II Red-Weed of Virginia, is Solanum magnum Virginianum rubrum. 1814 J. Lunan Hortus Jamaicensis II. 79 This plant is the same as the red-weed or poke of Virginia and New England, from which the Indians prepare a red dye. 1960 Geogr. Rev. 50 8 The pokeberry is known as pocan.., scoke, coakum..and redweed. 2002 Weed Technol. 16 545/2 Differences in control were noted among the herbicide treatments for prickly sida and redweed. 3. English regional (south-western). The plant knotgrass, Polygonum aviculare. Now rare. ΚΠ a1824 B. Holdich in G. Sinclair Holdich's Ess. Weeds of Agric. (1825) v. 63 Knot-grass, snake-weed, red-weed (Polygonum aviculare). 1882 H. Friend Gloss. Devonshire Plant Names 47 Redweed, Polygonum aviculare. L. ‘Redweed and Assmart usually occur together,’ said a farmer to me. 4. English regional (Cheshire). The plant herb Robert, Geranium robertianum. ΚΠ 1877 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 13 39/2 Geranium Robertianum.—The cottagers on Delamere Forest call this ‘Rubwort’ and ‘Red weed’. 1949 F. H. Crossley Cheshire 360 Redweed Geranium Robertianum (Delamere). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1609 |
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