单词 | rose campion |
释义 | rose campionn. Any of several red- or pink-flowered campions, chiefly of the genus Lychnis; esp. the mullein pink, Lychnis coronaria (formerly included in the genus Agrostemma), commonly grown in gardens for its greyish woolly foliage and numerous deep red flowers. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > campions and catchflies rose campion1530 jagged pink1574 cuckoo-gilliflower1578 flower Constantinople1578 marsh gilliflower1578 wild William1578 crow-flower1597 gardener's delight1597 nonsuch1597 cuckoo-flower1629 fair maid of France1629 meadow pink1660 Bristol Non-such1668 flower of Bristol1672 knight-cross1725 ragged robin1731 fair maid of Kent1813 flower of Jove1840 mullein pink1840 fire pink1848 sticky catchfly1908 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 264/1 Rosecampyon a floure. 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. G.vij The third is called Thryallis, and Rosecampion in englishe. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §560 Plants, that..have a Kinde of Downey or Velvet Rine, upon their Leaves; as Rose-Campion. 1688 J. Ray Historia Plantarum II. 992 Lychnis Coronaria, Garden Campions or Rose Campion. 1718 J. Gardiner tr. R. Rapin Of Gardens (ed. 2) i. 35 Æthiopis, Woolfbane, red Rose-campions rise. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 700/2 Coronaria, in which the calyx is thickened in fruit; the Rose Campion (Lychnis coronaria) is a good example. 1872 Ld. Tennyson Last Tournament in Gareth & Lynette 105 Glowing in all colours, the live grass, Rose-campion,..poppy, glanced About the revels. 1919 Garden Mag. Dec. 175/1 Rose campion or Mullein Pink (Lychnis Coronaria) is also old-fashioned, neglected and lovely. 1952 Independent Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Calif.) 2 Nov. 13/4 Varieties favored in Southern California are Agrostemma or Rose Campion, having silver foliage and blood-red blooms. 1999 National Trust Mag. Autumn 23/1 A border..runs round the edge with a repeating pattern of rose campion, nettle-leaved campanula, peony, Dianthus and Dictanmus. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1530 |
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