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单词 sweet-gale
释义

sweet-galen.

Forms: Also 1600s -gaule.
Etymology: See sweet adj. and gale n.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsweet-gale.
The bog myrtle, Myrica Gale.
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gow1598
sweet-gale1640
candle-tree1692
candleberry tree1731
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myrica1791
wax-tree1791
wax-plant1801
wax-myrtle1813
Comptonia1823
tallow-bush1835
wax-berry1835
sweet fern1849
bog myrtle1866
meadow fern1876
flea-wood1892
1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 1451 Rhus sylvestris sive Myrtus Brabantica aut Anglica. Sweete Gaule.
1838 M. Howitt Birds & Flowers 85 The spicy sweet-gale loved so well.
1845 J. Lindley School Bot. (1862) 128 The Sweet Gale..has amentaceous achlamydeous flowers.
1851 Ld. Tennyson Edwin Morris 110 I..heard..The Sweet-Gale rustle round the shelving keel.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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