| 单词 | sweet milk-vetch |
| 释义 | > as lemmassweet milk-vetch Any plant of the genera Astragalus and Oxytropis (family Fabaceae ( Leguminosae)), characterized by pinnately divided leaves and axillary racemes of often purple or yellow flowers; an astragalus, an oxytropis; esp. (more fully sweet milk-vetch) a Eurasian plant of calcareous grassland and scrub, A. glycyphyllos, which has greenish-white flowers (also called wild liquorice). Often with distinguishing word.purple milk-vetch: see purple adj. 2c. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorn-tree or -bush > [noun] > other thorn-trees paliurec1384 paliurusa1398 sea-willow1548 Christ's thorn1553 buckler-thorn1562 garland-thorn1597 goat's thorn1597 Jews thorn1597 milk-vetch1597 sea-buckthorn1731 Spanish hedgehog thorn1760 sensitive briar1802 lily thorn1816 sallow thorn1847 cat-brier1875 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > milk-vetch astragalus1548 sea trefoil1548 sea trifoly1548 milk-vetch1597 liquorice vetch1640 prairie pea1848 sweet milk-vetch1860 buffalo-bean1906 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 1058 Of milke Vetch. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 319 Bastard Milk Vetch, Phaca. 1800 J. E. Smith Flora Britannica II. 780 Astragalus hypoglottis... Purple Mountain Milk-vetch... On Newmarket heath and Gogmagog hills. 1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Milk-Vetch, Stemless. Common name for the Astragalus escapus. 1917 Wyoming Agric. Exper. Station Bull. No. 112 (title) The poisonous properties of the two-grooved milk vetch (Astragalus bisulcatus). 1953 Bot. Gaz. 114 413/2 The chief forbs that increased with range deterioration to good pasture were Short's milk-vetch (Astragalus shortianus), red false mallow, many-flowered aster, and ironweed. 1979 C. Grey-Wilson Alpine Flowers Brit. & Europe 116 Milk-vetches. Oxytropis is similar and often confused with Astragalus. 1990 Nature Conservancy May 28/2 Nearby desert soils give rise to the gypsum milk-vetch (Astragalus gypsodes). sweet milk-vetch sweet milk-vetch n. Astragalus glycyphyllus, with sweet-flavoured leaves. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > milk-vetch astragalus1548 sea trefoil1548 sea trifoly1548 milk-vetch1597 liquorice vetch1640 prairie pea1848 sweet milk-vetch1860 buffalo-bean1906 1860 Chambers's Encycl. I. 504/1 The Sweet Milk-vetch, or Wild Liquorice. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。