| 单词 | trumpet-weed |
| 释义 | > as lemmastrumpet-weed trumpet-weed n. (a) a large South African seaweed, Ecklonia buccinalis = sea-trumpet n. 3; (b) a North American species of hemp-agrimony, Eupatorium purpureum, with hollow stems which children blow through like trumpets; (c) a North American species of lettuce, Lactuca canadensis. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > sea-trumpet sea-bamboo1798 trumpet-weed1830 sea-trumpet1836 trumpet-grass1850 trumpet-seaweed1884 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > hemp-agrimony holy ropec1485 eupatory1542 agrimony1578 Eupatorium1578 bastard hemp1597 water agrimony1597 hemp-agrimony1760 hempweed1796 joe-pye weed1818 trumpet-weed1830 feverwort1836 gravel-root- 1830 Huntingdon (Pa.) Courier 15 Sept. 4/5 American Remedies Wanted..Gravel Wort or Trumpet Weed. 1856 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (1860) 186 Eupatorium purpureum (..Trumpet-Weed). 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1179 Trumpet-weed, the name of a seaweed, Ecklonia buccinalis,..very common..at the Cape of Good Hope... The stem of this seaweed, says Dr. Harvey, which is hollow in the upper portion, is when dried..used..as a siphon, and by the native herdsmen is formed into a trumpet for collecting the cattle in the evening... The name is also applied in America to Eupatorium purpureum. 1888 E. Eggleston Graysons xx. 222 Shaded by the broad-leaved horse and trumpet weeds in the fence~row. < as lemmas |
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