单词 | vernal starwort |
释义 | > as lemmasvernal starwort 2. Any of various small aquatic or mud-dwelling plants of the cosmopolitan genus Callitriche (family Plantaginaceae, formerly Callitrichaceae) having thread-like stems, very small flowers lacking a perianth, and leaves which are long and thin when submerged, and wider and flatter on the surface of the water where they form rosettes; = water starwort n. at water n. Compounds 9b; esp. (in full vernal starwort) C. palustris (formerly C. verna). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > water starwort starwort1597 callitriche1601 water star1816 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 681 There is likewise another herbe of small reckoning that floteth vpon the water called Stellaria aquatica or water Starwoort. 1762 W. Hudson Flora Anglica 2 Callitriche..verna... Anglis, vernal Starwort, Star-headed Water Chickweed. 1771 R. Warner Plantæ Woodfordienses 163 Water-wort. Vernal Star-wort. Star-headed Water Chickweed. In ditches, and stagnated waters: common. It flowers from March to October. 1777 S. Robson Brit. Flora 91 Callitriche verna..Vernal Waterwort. Starwort. Star-headed water Chickweed. Upper leaves oval, flowers monoicous. In ditches. 1839 Essex Lit. Jrnl. 28 May 142/1 Every stagnant pool exhibits its supernatant foliage, sometimes consisting of dense patches of the Star-wort, (Callitriche aquatica). 1853 Leisure Hour 16 June 389/2 A singular little plant, called the vernal star-wort (Callitriche verna), is found everywhere on our streams, the leaves in pairs, and shining roots coming out from the joints. 1904 G. C. Bateman Fresh-water Aquaria (ed. 2) vii. 101 The plants which she [sc. the female Newt] prefers for the protection and hiding of her eggs are the Starwort (Callitriche verna), the Anacharis, and the Water Crowfoot (Ranunculus aquatilis). 1987 T. H. Clutton-Brock & M. E. Ball in Rhum 133 Callitriche intermedia Hoffm.: Starwort. Not uncommon. C. stagnalis Scop.: Starwort. Wet places. 2011 N. Romanowski Wetland Weeds i. 7 Weedy floating-leaf plants such as starwort..may grow so densely as to form a floating mat. < as lemmas |
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