单词 | small bugloss |
释义 | > as lemmassmall bugloss small bugloss n. [after Middle French petite buglosse (1557 in the source translated in quot. 1578), itself after Dutch †cleyne ossentonghe (1554 in Dodoens)] the common European bugloss, Anchusa (formerly Lycopsis) arvensis, with blue flowers.In quot. 1640 perhaps: a red flowered echium. ΚΠ 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. iii. 8 The wilde kinde of Buglosse is like to the small Buglosses..sauing the leaues be rougher, smaller, and narrower. 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 765 (caption) Small Buglosse with red flowers. 1799 R. E. Hunter Short Descr. Isle Thanet 90 Small Bugloss, in corn fields, near Birchington. 1896 Irish Naturalist 5 283 All these have grown from seed which I scattered, and may no more be counted natives than the small Bugloss (Lycopsis arvensis). 1957 Amer. Midland Naturalist 58 52 Small Bugloss. In fields and waste places. 2004 M. J. Dwelley Summer & Fall Wildflowers of New Eng. (ed. 2) 287 Small Bugloss grows in fields and along sandy or dry roadsides or near unkept dwellings. < as lemmas |
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