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单词 scentless mayweed
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scentless mayweed
Originally (now chiefly U.S.): the stinking chamomile, Anthemis cotula (more fully stinking mayweed). In later use: any of various similar plants of the family Asteraceae ( Compositae), which occur as arable weeds; esp. Tripleurospermum inodorum (more fully scentless mayweed).
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1543 B. Traheron Interpr. Straunge Wordes in tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. sig. ζζ.iiiv/1 Caput monachi..is thought to be the herbe which the Grecians call buphthalmon, that is oxe eye, and whyche we call mayweede.
1557 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandrie sig. C.iii The may wede doth burne, and the thistle doth freate.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 617 1 Cotula fœtida. Maie weede. 2 Cotula lutea. Yellow Maie weede.
1657 C. Beck Universal Char. sig. I4v Oxe-eye, vid. may weed.
1670 J. Ray Catalogus Plantarum Angliæ 84 Cotula fœtida... Stinking Mayweed or Maithes.
1672 J. Josselyn New-Englands Rarities 86 May-weed, excellent for the Mother; some of our English Housewives call it Iron Wort.
1758 R. Brown Compl. Farmer (1759) 94 Rub the place with wormwood, nettles, may-weed.
1794 J. Clark Gen. View Agric. Hereford 22 Ragwort, maywide, wormwood.
1808 W. Pitt Gen. View Agric. Stafford (ed. 2) vii. 85 Stinking chamomile or may-weed (anthemis cotula); a disagreeable and troublesome weed.
1871 Harper's New Monthly Mag. 43 835/2 His belief that the offensively odored weed known in the West as the dog-fennel, but more generally styled the May-weed, possessed valuable antimalarial virtues.
a1887 R. Jefferies Toilers of Field (1892) 310 The mayweed fringes the arable fields with its white rays and yellow centre.
1901 C. T. Mohr Plant Life Alabama 55 In its northward spread this plant has largely taken the place of the mayweed (Anthemis cotula).
1964 E. Salisbury Weeds & Aliens (ed. 2) vi. 151 All the Mayweeds are rather resistant to chemical herbicides.
1966 C. A. Heller Wild Flowers Alaska 67 Mayweed. Matricaria ambigua.
1990 Pract. Gardening Nov. 16/4 This one dock will cast as many seeds as a mayweed and your plot will soon be filled with its thuggish offspring.
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scentless mayweed
scentless mayweed n. a plant of Eurasia and North Africa with yellow-centred white flowers, Tripleurospermum maritimum (family Asteraceae ( Compositae)), which resembles stinking chamomile or mayweed ( Anthemis cotula) but has a less aromatic odour.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > other composite plants
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1800 J. E. Smith Eng. Bot. X. 676 (heading) Corn feverfew. Scentless may-weed.
1857 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. III. 315 Scentless Mayweed..puzzles the young botanist by belying its name, and having an odour which, though not aromatic, is powerful and unpleasant.
1914 A. R. Horwood Story Plant Life Brit. Isles I. 140 The Scentless Mayweed..has a larger flower and a generally darker green colour [than the stinking mayweed].
2012 S. Fisher Canals of Brit. (ed. 2) l. 272/2 There is also a copse with elder, alder,..and scentless mayweed.
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