| 单词 | robin in the hedge |
| 释义 | > as lemmasRobin in the hedge P1. Chiefly British regional. Used as the first element in phrases forming the names of plants, as † Robin in the hedge, Robin-run-in-the-hedge and variants: any of several (chiefly creeping) plants; esp. ground-ivy, Glechoma hederacea, and goose-grass or cleavers, Gallium aparine. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > names applied to various climbers woodbinec875 withbindc1000 bindweed1601 supplejack1696 Robin-run-in-the-hedge1776 1776 W. Withering Bot. Arrangem. Veg. Great Brit. I. 340 Ground Ivy. Cats-foot. Ale-hoof. Tun-hoof. Robin run in the hedge. 1777 Farmer's Mag. Aug. 266 This plant is in the southern counties called Clivers, in those of the north and west Hairiff, and in some others Robin-i'-th'-hedge, but is the same plant as is known in all by the name of Goose-grass. 1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. Robbin-rin-the-Hedge, a trailing kind of weed, which runs along hedges, a robbin net. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Robin-ith-hedge, red flowered Campion. Lychnis dioica. 1846 T. Keightley Notes Bucolics & Georgics of Virgil 385 Cleavers, Clivers, Goose~grass. In some places (particularly in Ireland) it is called Robin-run-the-hedge. 1883 C. S. Burne Shropshire Folk-lore xxiii The old Ludlow custom of dining on a leg of pork stuffed with Robin-run-i'-the-hedge. 1918 L. B. Wilder Colour in my Garden xxi. 336 Creeping plants with insistent colonizing proclivities usually receive some such name as Meg-many-feet, Gill-over-the-ground, Robin-run-in-the-Hedge, [etc.]. 1990 N. Hill Death grows on You (1992) xv. 200 The sinuous branches of blackberry and late robin-run-the-hedge intertwining with dun-coloured dying grasses. < as lemmas |
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