| 单词 | squinancy-wort |
| 释义 | > as lemmassquinancy-wort squinancy-wort n. (also †squinancy-woodruff) the quinsy-wort or small woodruff, Asperula cynanchica. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > woodruff > allied flowers woodruff1597 squinancy-wort1713 houstonia1764 quinsy wort1799 Venus's pride1845 bouvardia1846 Quaker ladies1871 1713 J. Petiver Catal. Ray's Eng. Herbal Squinancy wort. 1763 Museum Rusticum (1764) 1 307 A wild madder that grows in Wales and England on barren grounds, called Squinancy-wort; formerly used by the apothecaries, for the cure of a sore throat. 1777 E. Jacob Plantæ Favershamienses 98 Asperula Cynanchica, Squinancy Wort. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 186 Asperula cynanchica... Squinancy Woodroof. 1813 J. N. Brewer Beauties Eng. & Wales XII. ii. 21 The botanist will find here a great quantity of the Squinancy wort, or Synanchia Lugdunensis. 1900 W. H. Hudson Nature in Downland 54 Woodruff,..curiously named squinancy-wort. < as lemmas |
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