单词 | vine-leaf |
释义 | vine-leafn. a. A leaf of a vine. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > grape-vine > parts of railinga1382 arma1398 palmita1398 vine-branchc1400 vine-leafc1420 portoir1601 vine dragon1601 husband1628 vine-water1736 rodding1833 rod1846 c1420 J. Lydgate Assembly of Gods 353 Of grene vyne leues he weryd a ioly crowne. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 510/2 Vyny leef, pampinus, abestrum. ?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 810 Hic pamplus, a vyneleffe. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clxv. f. lxxxxiiii They were fayne to take vyne leuys to couer with theyr secret Membrys. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. Table s.v. Vine leaves to be cleansed once in the spring. 1634 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman (new ed.) xii. 109 Whereby we are taught to know..Bacchus by his Vine-leaves. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Vitis That vile Taste of a rotten Vine Leaf. 1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VII. xliv. 151 There were two dozen of eggs cover'd over with vine-leaves at the bottom of the basket. 1819 P. B. Shelley Rosalind & Helen 65 Its casements bright Shone thro' their vine-leaves in the morning sun. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 238/2 The imago..shortly after lays its eggs upon the upper surface of the vine leaf. b. vine-leaf miner, an insect infesting vine-leaves.Also vine-leaf folder, vine-leaf hopper, vine-leaf roller. (In recent American dictionaries.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [noun] > member of > defined by feeding or parasitism > parasite(s) > infesting vine-leaves vine-fretter1608 vine-grub1688 vine-leaf miner1830 vine-feeder1855 1830 Insect Architecture (L.E.K.) 238 The vine-leaf miner, when about to construct its cocoon, cuts..two pieces of the membrane of the leaf. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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