单词 | small basil |
释义 | > as lemmassmall basil small basil n. [after Middle French petit basilic (1549 or earlier; 1557 in the source translated in quot. 1578; also basilic petit (1579 or earlier); French petit basilic). Dodoens's Dutch name for the plant is edele basilicom (1554), lit. ‘noble basil’] now rare a kind of basil, Ocimum minimum, with small leaves which are used as a culinary herb; also called bush basil. ΚΠ 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 240 Busshe Basill, or small Basill gentle. 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 19 This small Basill groweth not so like any of the former Bassills, or the small fine bush Bassill, in the bushing branches thereof, but rather somewhat resembling the wild Bassill, or Clinopodium. 1735 J. Keogh Bot. Univ. Hibernica 10 Small Basil, Lat. Basilicon minus. It is not much unlike the former, but the Leaves are much smaller. 1881 J. M. Nickell Bot. Ready Ref. 95 Ocimum Caryophyllatum, Small Basil. 1922 E. Kremers tr. E. Gildemeister & F. R. Hoffmann Volatile Oils 576 It contains eugenol as does the oil of the small basil, Ocimum minimum, L. 1995 Herb Q. 66 37/3 Spoon onto crostini and garnish with small basil or Italian parsley leaves. < as lemmas |
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