单词 | toad-flax |
释义 | toad-flaxn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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). > as lemmastoad-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. ΘΚΠ 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. < n.1578 as lemmas |
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