| 单词 | town-hall clock |
| 释义 | > as lemmastown-hall clock town-hall clock n. (also town-hall clocks) originally English regional (Cumberland) moschatel, Adoxa moschatellina. [So called on account of its inflorescence, which consists of five flowers, four of them facing outwards at right angles to each other (reminiscent of the dials on a clock tower), and the fifth at the top facing upwards.] ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Caprifoliaceae family or plant > [noun] > moschatel musk-wood crowfoot1688 moschatel1732 hollow-root1788 musk-crowfoot1855 town-hall clock1899 1899 E. W. Prevost Dickinson's Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (new ed.) p. xcv Adoxa moschatellina. Town-hall clock (Carlisle). 1946 G. Grigson in W. J. Turner Nature in Brit. 93 Professor Salisbury has recored a good name for moschatel—‘Town Hall Clock,’ because four of its five flowers look out, like clock faces, from the sides of a cube. 1968 F. Warner Garland 13 The red herb-Robert twined a bridge With celandine and town-hall-clocks. 1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 349/1 Townhall clock often grows in quite large colonies, especially where the soil is damp or slightly disturbed, as along the edges of woodland rides. 2012 Bristol Evening Post (Nexis) 7 Apr. 12 There's also the elegant twayblade, the delicate moschatel (known as town hall clock, due to its four-facing flowers) and the ghostly toothwort. < as lemmas |
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