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单词 toad-flax
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toad-flaxn.

Brit. /ˈtəʊdflaks/, U.S. /ˈtoʊdˌflæks/
Etymology: < toad n. + flax n., from the flax-like appearance of the foliage.
A popular name of the European plant Linaria vulgaris; hence extended as a generic name to other species of Linaria, as Ivy-leaved Toad-flax, L. Cymbalaria, Purple T., L. purpurea. bastard toad-flax, a name for Thesium linophyllum, and the American genus Comandra.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Scrophulariaceae (figwort and allies) > [noun] > toadflax or cancer-wort
wild flaxa1400
cankerwortc1400
sulfc1450
linary1548
gall-wort1577
herb fluellin1578
toad-flax1578
cancerwort1597
flax-weed1597
linaria1597
butter and eggs1756
fluellin1756
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. liv. 79 Stanworte, wilde flaxe, or Tode flax, hath small, slender, blackish stalkes.
1630 M. Drayton Muses Elizium iii. 30 By Toadflax which your Nose may tast, If you haue a minde to cast.
1776 J. Lee Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) 353/1 Toad Flax, Antirrhinum.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Toadflax. Bastard, Thesium linophyllum; also an American name for Comandra.
1868 J. T. Burgess Eng. Wild Flowers 211 The ‘butter-and-eggs’ of the country folk—the Yellow Toadflax.
1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Theophrastus Such ii. 50 A crumbling bit of wall where the delicate ivy-leaved toad-flax hangs its light branches.
1893 ‘Q’ Delectable Duchy 21 A round stone wall, over which the toad-flax spread in a tangle.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

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toad-flax
a. With qualifying word prefixed, in the names of other species of Linum or of plants resembling the true flax, as dwarf-flax, fairy-flax, mountain-flax, purging flax, spurge-flax, toad-flax, wild flax: see quots., and the different words.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Scrophulariaceae (figwort and allies) > [noun] > toadflax or cancer-wort
wild flaxa1400
cankerwortc1400
sulfc1450
linary1548
gall-wort1577
herb fluellin1578
toad-flax1578
cancerwort1597
flax-weed1597
linaria1597
butter and eggs1756
fluellin1756
the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > rosaceous plants > [noun] > linum or fairy-flax
mill-mountain1633
mountain flax1648
rupturewort1670
purging flax1684
fairy flax1737
mountain flax1841
purge flax1853
fairy lint1859
dwarf-flax1863
linum1867
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > yielding fibre, thatching, or basket material > [noun] > flax plants
flaxc1000
linseedc1000
linec1420
lint1458
wild flax1878–86
a1400 J. Mirfield Sinonoma Bartholomei (1882) 28 Linaria, wilde flax.
1670 J. Ray Catalogus Plantarum Angliæ 196 Linum arvense..Common wild Flax.
1863 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants 81 Dwarf-, or Purging-, or Fairy-Flax, Linum catharticum.
1878–86 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names 187 Mountain Flax, (1) Linum catharticum..(2) Erythræa Centaurium.
1878–86 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names 187 Wild Flax, (1) Linaria vulgaris. (2) Cuscuta Epilinum.
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