单词 | bird's-tongue |
释义 | > as lemmasbird's-tongue bird's-tongue n. now rare any of various herbaceous plants, typically having long narrow leaves likened to a bird's tongue.Chiefly in lists of alternative names for these plants. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > names applied to various plants > [noun] heatha700 beeworteOE leversc725 springworteOE clotec1000 halswortc1000 sengreenc1000 bottle?a1200 bird's-tonguea1300 bloodworta1300 faverolea1300 vetchc1300 pimpernel1378 oniona1398 bird's nest?a1425 adder's grassc1450 cockheada1500 ambrosia1525 fleawort1548 son before the father1552 crow-toe1562 basil1578 bird's-foot1578 bloodroot1578 throatwort1578 phalangium1608 yew1653 chalcedon1664 dittany1676 bleeding heart1691 felon-wort1706 hedgehog1712 land caltrops1727 old man's beard1731 loosestrife1760 Solomon's seal1760 fireweed1764 desert rose1792 star of Bethlehem1793 hen and chickens1794 Aaron's beard1820 felon-grass1824 arrowroot1835 snake-root1856 firebush1858 tick-seed1860 bird's eye1863 burning bush1866 rat-tail1871 lamb's earsa1876 lamb's tongue plant1882 tar-weed1884 Tom Thumb1886 parrotbeak1890 stinkweed1932 the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > knot-grass swine's grasslOE bird's-tonguea1300 sparrow's-tonguea1400 corrigiolec1400 swinecress?a1425 knot-grass1538 way-grass1565 centinode1611 pinkweed1657 breadwort1736 stone-weed1847 allseed1855 knotwort1864 wire-weed1864 willow weed1866 knotweed1884 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Caryophyllaceae (chickweeds and allies) > [noun] > chickweeds and stitchworts chicken meateOE bird's-tonguea1300 stitchworta1300 chickenweedc1300 piglea1400 chickweed?a1425 craches1530 mouse-ear1578 all-bony1597 chickenwort1762 Stellaria1785 all bones1787 mouse-eared chickweed1789 cerastium1799 starwort1809 satin flower1836 adder's meat1853 thunder-flower1853 snap-jack1867 shirt button1880 a1300 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 557/35 Pinpernele, i. pinpre, i. briddestunge. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest ii. f. 34 Birdes tongue, is an Herbe whose chiefest working is to prouoke Uenerie, and causeth most ranck seede. It figureth the tongue of a Birde, whereof it hath his name. 1789 W. Aiton Hortus Kewensis III. 194 Senecio paludosus... Marsh Groundsel, or Bird's-tongue. 1940 E. R. Spencer Just Weeds 86 Knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare L.)... Like most of the weeds that came from the Old World this one has many English names: Ninety-knot,..Allseed, Bird's-tongue,..Hog-weed, and Pig rush. < as lemmas |
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