| 单词 | white melilot |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhite melilot Any of various Eurasian plants constituting the genus Melilotus (family Fabaceae ( Leguminosae)), characterized by trifoliate leaves and long racemes of small flowers, usually yellow or white, which smell of newly mown hay when dry, and are sometimes grown as forage and green manure and as bee plants; esp. (in full yellow melilot) the yellow-flowered M. officinalis, the dried flowers of which were formerly much used in making plasters, poultices, etc., and (in full white melilot) the white-flowered M. alba. Also (U.S.) called sweet clover. Also figurative.In Middle English also including species of clover. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > melilot hart-cloverc1000 melilotOE melion?1440 king's crown1526 hart's clover1548 king's clover1548 lote1548 wild lotus1548 hart's-trefoil1640 heartwort1640 whittle-grass1825 α. β. a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 354 (MED) Þou schalt make a decoccioun of flouris of camomile, mellilote, fenigrec, [etc.].a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) p. xii To þis sekenes, boyle mastyke..and oyle of camamylle and of mellilot.?a1425 (?1373) Lelamour Herbal (1938) f. 49v Melilote, oþer hony sokyll.1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 11 Meates inflatynge or wyndye: Beanes: Lupines:..Mellylote.?1541 R. Copland Formularie of Helpes of Woundes & Sores in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens sig. Yivv Ye decoction of moleyn, camomille, millelote.1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. E.iiij Melfrugum..maye be called in englishe whyte melilote.1587 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell: Horses (1596) 154 One ounce of the powder of mellilot.1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. x. 25 The sowing of the seede of Trefoyle, or Clauers, Melilot, Prunel, Milfoyle, &c...doth much inrich Meddowes.1652 R. Josselin Diary 27 June (1976) 281 A plaister of halfe an ounce of oyntment of melilot for the spleene.1706 J. Gardiner tr. R. Rapin Of Gardens i. 18 Sweet-scented Melilot.1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. xc. 330 Will not some serious thoughts mingle with thy melilot, and tear off the callus of thy mind?1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Horsheath This part of the Co. abounds with melilot, whose seeds mix so much with the corn..that it gives a taste to their bread, which is very disagreeable to strangers.1864 A. C. Swinburne Atalanta 1354 Every holier herb, Narcissus, and the low-lying melilote.1873 H. Watts Fownes's Man. Elem. Chem. (ed. 11) 824 Hydro~coumaric Acid exists in the yellow melilot.1940 A. W. Boyd Country Diary Cheshire Man (1946) iv. 219 One corner of a waste area..is completely covered with plants of melilot—at the least an acre of yellow flowers... Among these are a good many plants of the alien white melilot.1968 R. T. Peterson & M. McKenny Field Guide Wildflowers Northeastern & North-central N. Amer. 80 White Sweet Clover, Melilot..Melilotus alba.1991 Times 9 July 16/1 On grassy roadsides, the yellow ladders of melilot mingle with hop trefoil.OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) clxxxiii. 228 Ðeos wyrt þe man milotis..nemneð byð cenned on beganum stowum & on wætum. ?a1200 ( tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Harl. 6258B) civ. 71 Þeos wyrt, þe man milotis [nemneð], byð cenned..on wætum. < as lemmas |
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