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单词 swinecress
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swinecressn.

Brit. /ˈswʌɪnkrɛs/, U.S. /ˈswaɪnˌkrɛs/
Forms:

α. late Middle English swynes cars, late Middle English swynes carsse, late Middle English swynes karse, 1500s swines kerce, 1500s swynes cress, 1600s–1700s swines cress, 1800s– swine's cress.

β. late Middle English swyne karse, 1500s swine carse, 1500s–1600s 1800s 2000s– swine cress.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: swine n., cress n.
Etymology: In α. forms < the genitive of swine n. + cress n. In β. forms < swine n. + cress n. Compare earlier swine's grass n.; it is possible that some examples may show an alteration of that word.With sense 2 compare German Schweinskresse, Schweinekresse, denoting various plants of the genus Lepidium (late 18th cent. or earlier).
1. Knotgrass, Polygonum aviculare (which is attractive to pigs as food). Cf. swine's grass n. 1. Now rare and chiefly historical.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > knot-grass
swine's grasslOE
bird's-tonguea1300
sparrow's-tonguea1400
corrigiolec1400
swinecress?a1425
knot-grass1538
way-grass1565
centinode1611
pinkweed1657
breadwort1736
stone-weed1847
allseed1855
knotwort1864
wire-weed1864
willow weed1866
knotweed1884
?a1425 (?1373) Lelamour Herbal (1938) f. 75 (MED) Sparowetonge ys an erbe that is hote and drye, oþer wyse callyd swynes carsse oþer stryle.
a1500 MS Laud Misc. 553 f. 8v Centinodium is an herbe þat me cleputh centinodie or sparitonge or swynescars [a1450 Royal 18 A.vi swyneskarse, ?a1450 Stockh. swynys grees, c1450 Bodl. 583 swynes gersse, a1500 Harl. 3840 swynekarse] that herbe groweth welney ouer alle & hath mony knottes in on stalk.
1597 J. Gerard Herball App. Swine Carse is Knotgrasse.
1868 J. T. Burgess Old Eng. Wild Flowers 84 Under the names of cumberfield, ‘hindering knotgrass’, hogweed, swine's cress, it was known to our forefathers, who believed that it not only hindered the growth of plants, but of animals.
2001 C. A. Wright Mediterranean Veg. 319/2 Swine's cress is an annual whose 2-foot-tall stems are freely branched, forming a mat.
2. Either of two small herbaceous plants of the family Brassicaceae, Lepidium coronopus and L. didymum, having pinnately lobed leaves and racemes of small white flowers. Also in plural.Also called pepperwort, wart-cress, and (formerly) buck's-horn.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Cruciferae (crucifers) > [noun] > swine's cress
buck's-horna1450
swinecress1541
hartshorn1578
wart-cress1806
1541 Bk. Propertyes Herbes (new ed.) sig. Dviij Lingua hircina. This is called Buckeshorne or Swineskerce.
1681 W. Salmon Iatrica ii. v. 754/1 Take Coronopus or Buckhorn, Plantane with the roots (called by some Swines-Cresses) four handfuls.
1700 Wallace's Acct. Orkney (rev. ed.) ii. 17 Ambrosia campestris repens, Swines cresses.
1850 A. Pratt Chapters Common Things Sea-side i. 87 The common swine-cress, or wart-cress of our inland waste places.
1971 R. S. R. Fitter Finding Wild Flowers 58 Two more short-podded white crucifers are..the sprawling wart cresses or swine cresses Coronopus.
3. Common ragwort, Jacobaea vulgaris. Also in plural. Cf. swine's grass n. 2. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > ragwort
groundsela700
ragwortc1300
bunweeda1525
senecio1562
St. James's wort1578
rugwort1592
felon-weed1597
staggerwort1597
staverwort1597
yellow-weed1597
ragweed1610
swine's grassa1697
hogs madder1707
sea-ragwort1736
dog standard1767
Jacobaea1789
swinecress1803
benweed1823
fly-dod1826
mountain groundsel1830
cushag1843
fairies' horse1866
Oxford ragwort1884
1803 J. E. Smith Eng. Bot. XVI. 1130 Senecio Jacobæa. Common Ragwort... In Yorkshire this plant is sometimes called Swine's Cresses.
1847 R. Deakin Florigraphia Britannica III. 1084 When bruised it has a foetid unpleasant smell, and has been, under the name of Swine's Cress, applied in the form of poultice to cancers.
4. Nipplewort, Lapsana communis. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > nipplewort
dock-cress1597
swine's succory1597
nipplewort1640
wart succory1760
swinecress1855
succory dock-cress1857
dwarf nipplewort1866
1855 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. III. 218 L[apsana] communis (Common Nipple-wort)..is sometimes called Swine's-cress.
5. Fool's cress, Apium nodiflorum. Obsolete. rare. Eng. Dial. Dict. also included at this sense quot. 1700 at sense 2, apparently misinterpreting the pre-Linnaean Latin name of the plant.
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1904 R. H. Howard in Eng. Dial. Dict. V. 806/1 [N. Yorkshire] Swine's cress(es) [the fool's cress, Helosciadium nodiflorum].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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