单词 | tower mustard |
释义 | tower mustardn. Herbalism. a. Popular name of a cruciferous plant, Turritis glabra, found on banks and cliffs. Called also towers treacle, towerwort, and sometimes tower cress. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Cruciferae (crucifers) > [noun] > tower-mustard towers treacle1597 tower mustard1731 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 212 Towers Mustarde, of some hath beene taken for a kinde of Cresses. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I Turritis, Tower-Mustard. 1842 C. W. Johnson Farmer's Encycl. 1177/2 Turritis, from turris, a tower; the foliage is so disposed on the stems as to give them a pyramidal form, and for the same reason the plants are called tower-mustard. b. Sometimes applied to Arabis Turrita (see tower-cress n. at tower n.1 Compounds 5); also called bastard tower mustard. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Cruciferae (crucifers) > [noun] > other crucifers Raphanusa1398 watercress?a1450 boor's mustard1548 dish-mustard1548 rocket1548 treacle mustard1548 heal-dog1551 Thlaspi1562 candy mustard1597 Grecian mustard1597 Italian rocket1597 knave's mustard1597 madwort1597 mithridate mustard1597 moonwort1597 mithridate1605 wall-rocket1611 broom-wort1614 candytuft1629 draba1629 Turkey cress1633 rock cress1650 shepherd's cress1713 pennycress1714 alyssum1731 arabis1756 tower mustard1760 faverel1770 molewort1770 stinkweed1793 wall cabbage1796 wall-cress1796 awl-wort1797 sickle-pod1846 Kerguelen cabbage1847 sun cress1848 sand rocket1854 wall mustard1904 buckler-mustard- tower-cress- 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 320 Mustard, Bastard Tower, Arabis. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. at Mustard Mustard, Tower..also Arabis Turrita. 1867 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (ed. 5) 69 A[rabis] perfoliata, Lam. (Tower Mustard). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1597 |
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