单词 | white mustard |
释义 | > as lemmaswhite mustard a. Any of the yellow-flowered annual plants of the family Brassicaceae ( Cruciferae) whose seeds are used to make the condiment mustard; spec. (a) (in full black mustard) Brassica nigra, a tall European plant with dark brown seeds (now largely replaced commercially by brown mustard); (b) (in full white mustard) Sinapis alba, a somewhat hairy plant with yellowish seeds, originally native to the Mediterranean region, also used as seedlings in ‘mustard and cress’ (see sense A. 2c); (c) (in full brown mustard or Indian mustard) Brassica juncea, native to southern and eastern Asia, which has large pods containing brown seeds. Formerly called senvy.field, wild mustard, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > medicinal and culinary plants > medicinal and culinary plant or part of plant > [noun] > mustard plant senvya1300 mustard1340 mustard seed?1523 field senvy1597 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > medicinal and culinary plants > medicinal and culinary plant or part of plant > [noun] > mustard plant > brown or white mustard plant or seed black mustard1340 white mustard1731 brown mustard1875 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Cruciferae (crucifers) > [noun] > brassica plants wortc1325 colewortc1380 Arabian mustard1640 Indian mustard1731 aethionema1812 brassica1832 popweed1887 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 143 (MED) Þet zed o mostard is wel smal, ac hit is wel strang and wel bitinde. ?a1425 (?1373) Lelamour Herbal (1938) f. 87v (MED) White pepir ys hote and dry, and his levis ben like mostarde, but þay ben slyttid. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 349 Mustard [v.r. mustard syd], or warlok, or sevyne, herbe, sinapis. c1450 Med. Recipes (BL Add. 33996) in F. Heinrich Mittelengl. Medizinbuch (1896) 217 (MED) Loke þat þou haue redy greeter mustard & sawge leues, & stampe hyt. 1571 P. Peña & M. de L'Obel Stirpium Adversaria 67 Sinapi sativvm Erucæ, aut Rapifolium... Ang. Mudsterd, Senbeye. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 190 Sinapi syluestre. Wilde Mustard. 1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 222 As for the Mustard that sprung up in the Isle of Ely,..yet might it have been brought down in the Channels by the Floods. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Sinapi The Species are; 1. Common or Red Mustard. 2. Garden or White Mustard. 3. Indian Mustard, with a Lettuce leaf. 1785 M. Cutler in Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 1 468 Sinapis siliquis glabris tetragonis..Black Mustard. Blossoms pale yellow. Common about barns. 1800 R. Hodgkinson Jrnl. 14 June in Lancashire Gentleman (1992) v. 150 The answer I got was..that the Flower was called Mustard, that it was a weed. 1813 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening (ed. 5) 270 Mustard is much used as a sallad herb..and the white is the garden sort, the black being cultivated in fields for its seeds to make flour of. 1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 384/1 The brown mustard is grown solely for its seeds, which yield the well-known condiment. 1948 G. D. H. Bell Cultivated Plants Farm xiv. 126 Many brassicas are biennals... There are others, like the seed mustards and the coleseeds, which are annuals. 1992 Crop Pests U.K. xxxv. 178/1 Of the spring-sown crops, white mustard (Sinapis alba) is usually less affected [by cabbage stem weevil] than brown mustard (Brassica juncea). white mustard white mustard n. the mustard plant Sinapis alba (see mustard n. 2a). ΚΠ 1528 R. Copland tr. Secrete of Secretes of Arystotle sig. f.iijv Eate whyte mustard sede powdred..[with] thy meate. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Sinapi The Species are; 1. Common or Red Mustard. 2. Garden or White Mustard. 1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. xx. 386 The seeds of linseed, plantain, white mustard, and many others, when wetted, exude mucilage. 2007 J. M. DiTomaso & E. A. Healy Weeds Calif. I. 536 White mustard is commercially cultivated for the seeds and greens, but, similar to wild mustard. < as lemmas |
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