单词 | snow-flower |
释义 | snow-flowern.ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > daffodil and allied flowers > snowdrop snowdrop1664 snow-flower1664 fair maid of February1754 1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 81 in Sylva December... Flowers in Prime..Snow flowers or drops, Yucca, &c. 2. (See quot. 1836.) ΚΠ 1836 C. P. Traill Backwoods of Canada 240–1 The hepatica is the first flower of the Canadian spring... [They] call it snow-flower, from its coming so soon after the snow disappears. 3. = snowdrop tree n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > North American trees or shrubs > [noun] > fringe-tree snowdrop tree1731 fringe-tree1775 old man's beard1797 snow-flower1862 fringe-flower1882 1862 Chambers's Encycl. IV. 527/1 The Common Fringe tree or Snowflower..has..very numerous snow-white flowers in panicled racemes. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1067/2 Snowflower, Chionanthus virginica. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1664 |
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