| 单词 | bollock grass |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbollock grass bollock grass n. (also ballocks grass) [after early modern Dutch cullekens cruyt (1554 in the passage translated in quot. 1578); there is no equivalent in the Middle French translation of Dodoens] now historical any of several kinds of orchid having tubers which resemble testicles. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > orchids satyrionOE bollockwort?a1300 sanicle14.. bollock?a1425 martagon1548 orchis1559 dogstones1562 hare's-ballocks1562 stone1562 bollock grass1578 dog's cods1578 dog's cullions1578 double-leaf1578 fly-orchis1578 goat's cullions1578 goat's orchis1578 priest's pintle1578 twayblade1578 bee-orchis1597 bifoil1597 bird's nest1597 bird's orchis1597 butterfly orchis1597 fenny-stones1597 gelded satyrion1597 gnat satyrion1597 humble-bee orchis1597 lady's slipper1597 sweet ballocks1597 two-blade1605 cullions1611 bee-flower1626 fly-flower1640 man orchis1670 musk orchis1670 moccasin flower1680 gnat-flower1688 faham tea1728 Ophrys1754 green man orchis1762 Arethusa1764 honey flower1771 cypripedium1775 rattlesnake plantain1778 Venus's slipper1785 Adam and Eve1789 lizard orchis179. epidendrum1791 Pogonia?1801 Vanda1801 cymbidium1815 Oncidium1822 putty-root1822 Noah's Ark1826 yellow moccasin1826 gongora1827 cattleya1828 green man1828 nervine1828 stanhopea1829 dove-flower1831 catasetum1836 Odontoglossum1836 Miltonia1837 letter plant1838 spread eagle1838 letter-leaf1839 swan-plant1841 orchid1843 disa1844 masdevallia1845 Phalaenopsis1846 faham1850 Indian crocus1850 moccasin plant1850 pleione1851 dove orchis1852 nerve root1854 Holy Ghost flower1862 basket-plant1865 lizard's tongue1866 mousetail1866 Sobralia1866 swan-neck1866 swanwort1866 Indian shoe1876 odontoglot1879 wreathewort1879 moth orchid1880 rattlesnake orchid1881 dendrobe1882 dove-plant1882 Madeira orchis1882 man orchis1882 swan-flower1884 slipper-orchid1885 slipper orchis1889 mayflower1894 scorpion orchid1897 moederkappie1910 dove orchid1918 monkey orchid1925 man orchid1927 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. lvi. 222 Some cal it also Orchis..Ballock grasse [Du. Cullekens cruyt]..and Bastard Satyrion. 1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xxiii. 216 Ballocks-grass, or Satyrium..is only nourishing in the full, heavy and sappy root. 1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names 23 Ballock Grass..Orchis mascula. 2000 E. Hansen Orchid Fever vi. 89 ‘Orchid ice cream,’ she said. ‘Made from what the Renaissance nurserymen called “bollock grass”.’ < as lemmas |
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