| 单词 | bloody man's finger |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbloody man's finger bloody man's finger n. (also bloody men's finger) English regional (now rare) (chiefly in plural) (a) the wild arum or cuckoo pint, Arum maculatum; (b) the early purple orchid, Orchis mascula; (c) the foxglove; = bloody finger n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Araceae (wake-robin and allies) > [noun] dragonsc1000 cuckoo-pintlea1400 yekestersea1400 aaron?c1425 calf's-footc1450 cuckoo-spitc1450 rampa1500 priest's hood1526 wake-robin1530 green dragon1538 arum1551 cuckoo-pint1551 dragonwort1565 priest's pintle1578 tarragon1591 starch root1596 friar's cowl1597 friar's-hood1597 starchwort1597 dragon serpentine1598 dragon's-herb1600 small dragonwort1674 dumb cane1696 skunk weed1735 polecat weed1743 lords and ladies1755 mucka-mucka1769 skunk cabbage1778 bloody man's finger1787 green dragon1789 swamp-cabbage1792 priest in the pulpit1837 orontiad1846 arad1853 cows and calves1853 bulls and cows1863 skunk cabbage1869 aroid1876 Adam and Eve1877 stallion1878 cunjevoi1889 1787 W. Withering Bot. Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 2) II. 1012 Arum maculatum... Bloody-men's fingers, Worcestershire. 1854 Notes & Queries 16 Sept. 226/2 The plant [sc. Orchis mascula] is still called ‘Bloody Men's Fingers’ by the peasantry in the neighbourhood of Cheltenham. 1878 Notes & Queries 10 Aug. 105/1 Bloodyman's fingers, the flower of the foxglove (Digitalis purpurea). 1884 H. Friend Flowers & Flower Lore (ed. 2) 484 I am almost afraid to mention the Arum, seeing its aliases are so many... It is sometimes called Bloody-man's Finger. 1911 C. M. Skinner Myths & Legends Flowers 52 When these flowers convert to red berries, and the hood that covered them disappears, we see why the plant gained the name of ‘bloody men's fingers’. 1913 E. M. Wright Rustic Speech & Folk-lore 7 The foxglove is called:..witches' thimbles, bloody man's fingers, dead man's bells, [etc.]. 2009 Jrnl. Ecol. 97 374/1 More ominous folk names given to O. mascula are ‘Gethsemane’, ‘king's fingers’, ‘bloody man's fingers’ and ‘dead man's thumbs’ because the leaves have red markings which look like drops of blood. < as lemmas |
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