| 单词 | bleeding heart |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbleeding heart bleeding heart n. (a) the popular name for several plants; e.g. the Wallflower ( Cheiranthus cheiri), the Aristotelia peduncularis, Colocasia esculenta of the Hawaiian Islands, Dicentra formosa, and a variety of Cherry (Miller); (b) figurative an excessively soft-hearted or sympathetic person (colloquial); also attributive. 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 mind > emotion > compassion > [noun] > sympathy > sympathetic person(s) > excessively sympathetic person bleeding heart1958 1691 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 8) 171 Cherries... Bleeding Heart. 1803 J. Abercrombie Every Man his Own Gardener (ed. 17) 674/1 Cherries..White heart, Black heart, Bleeding heart. 1825 J. Britton Beauties Wilts. III. 371 Bleeding-heart, the wall-flower. 1887 Cent. Mag. July 325 The white-hearts (related to the bleeding-hearts of the gardens, and absurdly called ‘Dutchman's breeches’). 1897 Outing (U.S.) 29 318/2 She held out a rose to Ferguson, but to Jonathan she gave a bleeding-heart. 1916 D. H. Lawrence Amores 130 The tender, mild Flowers of the bleeding-heart. 1923 E. F. Wyatt Invisible Gods i. ii. 16 The sprays of bleeding heart. 1958 J. Bingham Murder Plan Six iii. 74 You want to think straight, Victor. You want to control this bleeding-heart trouble of yours. 1960 ‘I. T. Ross’ Murder out of School vi. 68 A lot of bleeding-hearts got the idea they knew about everything. < as lemmas |
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