单词 | red rattle |
释义 | red rattlen. Any of various semi-parasitic plants of the genus Pedicularis (family Scrophulariaceae); esp. either of two European species, (more fully marsh red rattle, tall red rattle) P. palustris, a crimson-flowered plant of marshes and wet meadows, and (more fully dwarf red rattle, †red rattle grass) P. sylvatica, a dwarf, pink-flowered plant of damp heaths and pastures.Plants of this genus are also called lousewort. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Scrophulariaceae (figwort and allies) > [noun] > lousewort or red rattle lousewort1578 rattle grass1578 red rattle1578 mimmulus1633 pipeweed1702 wood betony1886 Indian warrior1897 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. lvi. 517 Redde Rattel [Fr. La Creste rouge, Du. Die roode Ratelen] is taken of the Physitions in these dayes. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 913 Red Rattle..hath very small, rent, or iagged leaues, of a browne redde colour... It is called..in English Rattle grass, red Rattle grasse, and Lousewoort. 1656 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian Enlarged 312 The common Red Rattle, hath sundry reddish hollow stalks..rising from the Root. 1713 J. Petiver Catal. Ray's Eng. Herbal Tall Red Rattle. 1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters ii. 131 All over it [grow] rushes, red rattle, marsh-marygold, &c. 1846 J. W. Loudon Brit. Wild Flowers 251 The Pasture Louse-Wort, or Dwarf Red Rattle. 1883 Good Words 24 574/1 The golden bog-asphodel,..the rosy red-rattle. 1918 W. Graveson Brit. Wild Flowers xvi. 138 Where the ground is boggy, Marsh Valerian and Marsh Red Rattle are plentiful. 1939 I. E. Melhus & G. C. Kent Elements Plant Pathol. xiv. 427 In..the red rattles and yellow rattles of Europe and the Americas, the parasites are dependent on the attachment to the roots of their hosts. 2006 Scunthorpe Evening Tel. (Nexis) 28 June 14 Many of North Lincolnshire's unusual bog plants, including Butterwort, three types of Sundew and Red Rattle, have nearly disappeared. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmasred rattle 1. Any of several plants of the related genera Rhinanthus and Pedicularis (family Orobanchaceae), which have seeds that rattle in the capsule when ripe and are chiefly parasitic weeds of meadows and pastures; spec. (a) (in full †mead-rattle, †white-rattle, yellow rattle) cockscomb, R. minor; (b) (in full red rattle) either of the louseworts P. sylvatica and P. palustris. Occasionally also in plural with singular agreement.Frequently with distinguishing word usually denoting the colour of the flowers.mead, marsh red, red, yellow rattle: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > cock's-comb yellow rattleOE coxcomba1500 penny-grassa1500 cockcomb1687 rattlebox1866 fiddle-cases1878 lousewort1901 OE Brussels Gloss. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 296 Bobonica, hratele. c1300 in T. Hunt Plant Names Medieval Eng. (1989) 64 [Camepitheos] anglice rachille [prob. read rathille]. a1400 in T. Hunt Plant Names Medieval Eng. (1989) 64 [Camepitheos] rathhele. 1523 in T. Hunt Plant Names Medieval Eng. (1989) 64 [Camepitheos] mederatel or ratyl or fartyng-grasse. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. lvi. 516 Yellow Rattel. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Creste au coq, ou, de coq, the hearbe coxcombe, Penie-grasse, yellow and white Rattle. 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 255 Rattles they hand-weed as soon as in flower. 1756 J. Hill Brit. Herbal 120 We confusedly call two genera in English by the name of rattle, distinguishing them only by epithets taken from the colour of the flower into red and yellow rattle. 1777 J. Lightfoot Flora Scotica I. 322 Yellow-Rattle, or Cock's-Comb. Anglis... The seeds..when ripe, rattle in their capsules, and indicate the time of hay-harvest. 1854 S. Thomson Wanderings among Wild Flowers (ed. 4) iii. 209 We must not overlook the yellow rattle.., for ere long its seeds will be rattling in its seed-vessel. 1880 R. Jefferies Hodge & Masters II. 281 ‘Rattles’ and similar plants destructive to the hay crop. 1911 Times 21 June 7/6 The weed known as yellow rattle, rattles, rattle-grass, cock's-comb and horsepenny is very abundant in some districts this season. 1943 R. Morse Bk. of Wildflowers x. 88 The yellowrattle..is by no means alone in this strange, root-sucking habit... The common redrattle, or lousewort, behaves in a precisely similar way. 1994 Times 2 July (Weekend section) 16/5 The grass sparkles with meadow saxifrage and yellow rattle. < as lemmas |
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