| 单词 | adder's meat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasadder's meat adder's meat n. (also adders' meat) chiefly English regional greater stitchwort, Stellaria holostea. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Caryophyllaceae (chickweeds and allies) > [noun] > chickweeds and stitchworts chicken meateOE bird's-tonguea1300 stitchworta1300 chickenweedc1300 piglea1400 chickweed?a1425 craches1530 mouse-ear1578 all-bony1597 chickenwort1762 Stellaria1785 all bones1787 mouse-eared chickweed1789 cerastium1799 starwort1809 satin flower1836 adder's meat1853 thunder-flower1853 snap-jack1867 shirt button1880 1853 A. Pratt Wild Flowers II. 9 It [sc. greater stitchwort] was called in early times White-flowered grass, and is now known in country places as the Satin Flower, and Adder's meat. 1920 Times 9 Mar. 19/6 The starry stitchwort..is in some country districts called ‘adders' meat’, from a notion that the serpent feeds on this unbaleful herbage. 1996 Chiltern Seeds Catal. 223 Greater Stitchwort (so called for its ‘property in helping stitches and pains in the sides’). Satin Flower, Adder's Meat, Moon Flower and others. < as lemmas |
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