单词 | white bottle |
释义 | white bottlen. Now rare. Originally: any of various plants, probably having white flowers, perhaps including ox-eye daisy and a kind of cornflower. In later use: spec. bladder campion, Silene vulgaris, which has a whitish flower with an inflated calyx. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > composite flowers > chrysanthemums goldOE buddle?a1350 great daisya1400 white bottlea1400 bigolda1500 maudlin-wort1552 chrysanthemum1578 ox-eyea1637 whiteweed1642 ox-eye daisy1731 moonflower1787 ox-daisy1813 ox-eyed daisy1817 pyrethrum1837 horse-gowan1842 marguerite1847 maudlin daisy1855 moon daisy1855 pompom1861 moon-penny1866 crown daisy1875 Korean chrysanthemum1877 Paris daisy1882 mum1891 Shasta daisy1901 chrysanth1920 penny-daisy1920 Korean1938 Nippon daisy1939 a1400 Alphita (Selden) (1887) 45 Consolida media,..habet..florem album latum et durum, similem camomille sed maiorem..ace. whit-bothel uel seynt Mary maythe. ?a1450 Agnus Castus (Stockh.) (1950) 148 Consolida media. is an herbe þat men clepe qwyt bothel. [a1450 Royal wyth boþume, a1500 Harl. white bothom] or qwyth golde. 1651 J. French Art Distillation ii. 56 Take..White-bottles, Scabius, Dandelyon,..of each one handfull. 1662 tr. F. Plater et al. Golden Pract. Physick (new ed.) ii. xvii. 437/1 Half a dram of Sperma cæti. or pouder of Snake-weed, Tormentil, flowers of St. Johns wort, great Cyanus or White-bottle. 1738 G. C. Deering Catalogus Stirpium 136 White-bottle, or rather Bladder Campion..Grows mostly amongst the Corn. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 412 Spatling Poppy. White Bottle. Bladder Campion. Corn fields and dry meadows and pastures, common. 1866 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands 531 The Hoop-shaver Bee..strips off the down that clothes the stem of the common bladder-campion, or white-bottle. 1895 Album 29 July 158/1 The sight of these ‘white bottles,’ as the village folk call them, recalls a story of the island of Minorca. 1908 Bull. L'Herbier Boissier 8 409 The name of Silene inflata for the white-bottle is in all but universal use, and has been so for 108 years. 1990 A. L. Mitchell Dried Flower Garden ii. 90/1 (heading) Silene vulgaris (bladder campion or white bottle). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1400 |
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