| 单词 | spotted persicaria |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspotted persicaria Originally (more fully spotted persicaria): a common Eurasian weed, Persicaria maculosa (formerly Polygonum persicaria), of the family Polygonaceae, which has spikes of small pink flowers and lanceolate leaves often bearing a dark blotch (also called redshank). In later use, usually with distinguishing word: any of the plants constituting the genus Persicaria (commonly treated as a section of the genus Polygonum); spec. the garden plant P. orientalis, a tall annual with dense spikes of rose-pink flowers, native to South-East Asia. Also (in form Persicaria): the genus (or section of the genus Polygonum) containing these plants.See also pale persicaria n. at pale adj. Compounds 3b.Valid publication of the genus name: P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 4, 1754) III, after earlier use in the first folio edition of 1731. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Polygonaceae (dock and allies) > [noun] > bistort and allies adderwortOE arsesmarta1300 persicarya1400 persicaria?a1450 polygonya1500 buckwheat1548 polygonum1562 passions1568 bistort1578 oysterloit1578 goat's wheat1597 peachwort1597 plumbago1597 redshank1597 snake-weed1597 dragonwort1656 smartweed1787 patience dock1796 red-legs1820 passion dock1828 smartgrass1837 mud knotweed1845 jointweed1866 tear-thumb1866 pinch-weed1883 knotweed1884 sachaline1901 ?a1450 Agnus Castus (Stockh.) (1950) 196 (MED) Persiccaria is an herbe þat men clepe arsmert or keliage; þis herbe haȝt lewys lyk to wythy and þer are ij specis, þe ton growith on hyllys and haȝt many quyt lewys. 1526 Grete Herball xx. sig. Biii/2 For wormes in the bely, take armonyake with iuce of wormwood, or parsicaria. Arssmert. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 361 Dead Arsmart is called Persicaria, or Peachwoort, of the likenesse that the leaues haue with those of the Peach tree. 1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. ii. ii. 79 A Load of Persicaria or Arsmart, brought to him by some of the Country People. 1754 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. III. 2403/1 Persicaria, Arsmart, in botany, a genus of the octandria trigynia class of plants, with a monopetalous flower, divided into five oval segments. 1777 W. Curtis Flora Londinensis I. Pl. (heading) Polygonum Persicaria. Common spotted Persicaria. 1787 W. Marshall Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Norfolk II. 388 Smartweed,..biting and pale-flowered persicarias; arsmart. 1800 J. E. Smith Flora Britannica I. 404 Polygonum Persica... Spotted Persicaria. 1840 Penny Cycl. XVII. 487/2 Persicaria is the garden name of a species of Polygonum (P. orientale), a handsome annual, growing about six feet high. 1883 Good Words 24 710 Orach and fleabane, the yellow toadflax and pink persicaria. 1918 W. Graveson Brit. Wild Flowers (1919) xxiii. 214 Stretches of almost still water allow rose-pink amphibious persicaria to share possession with sagittate-leaved..Arrowhead. 1960 S. Ary & M. Gregory Oxf. Bk. Wild Flowers 126/1 Spotted Persicaria or Red-legs..can usually be easily recognized by the red stems and the dark blotch in the middle of the leaves. 1990 Plants & Gardens Autumn 75/1 Recent comparative studies have highlighted..the presence of nectaries in Persicaria (absent in Polygonum) and the usually cylindrical, filiform filaments. < as lemmas |
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