| 单词 | resurrection plant |
| 释义 | > as lemmasresurrection plant resurrection plant n. any of various plants, chiefly of desert regions, which curl up in dry conditions and appear dead, but which expand again when moistened and revive or appear to revive; esp. the rose of Jericho, Anastatica hierochuntica (cf. resurrection flower n.), and Selaginella lepidophylla, a clubmoss of the south-east United States and Central America. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by nutrition or respiration > [noun] > that appears to die and revive resurrection plant1841 the world > plants > particular plants > moss > [noun] > club-moss or moss-like ferns dwarf cypress1548 heath-cypress1551 pine1551 wolf's-claw1578 club-moss1597 wolf-claw1597 wolf's-foot1597 tree-moss1611 Selagoa1627 cypress-moss1640 mountain moss1688 lycopodium1706 stag's horn (also staghorn) moss1741 walking fern1814 tod-tails1820 Robin Hood's hatband1828 resurrection plant1841 ground-pine1847 forks and knives1853 fir club-moss1855 lycopod1861 Selaginella1865 foxtail1866 stag-head or stag's head moss1869 fir-moss1879 hog-bed1900 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > non-British plants or herbs > [noun] > tropical > rose of Jericho rose of Jerichoc1450 Saint Mary's flower1839 resurrection plant1841 1841 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 18 Oct. 2/4 We have been favored with a sight of a most beautiful and rare plant, just received from Lower California. It is called the Resurrection Plant. 1870 A. Henfrey & M. T. Masters Elem. Course Bot. (ed. 2) 413 One or two of the species [of Selaginellæ] roll up their fronds when dry, and unfold them again when placed in water, owing to the rapid absorption of the fluid, whence they have been called Resurrection plants. 1902 Cycl. Amer. Hort.: R–Z 1507/1 Resurrection plants are great curiosities... The commonest ones are members of the mustard family and the club moss family. 1951 G. H. M. Lawrence Taxon. Vascular Plants 339 The highly publicized resurrection plant (S[elaginella] lepidophylla) is shipped by the bale from Mexico and sold here as a novelty. 1997 Physiologia Plantarum 100 153 We examined whether this [sc. accumulation of special carbohydrates] is also true for the two European angiosperm genera of resurrection plants, Ramonda and Haberlea in the Gesneriaceae. < as lemmas |
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