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单词 white satin flower
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white satin flower
1. Botany. More fully white satin flower. Either of two plants of the genus Lunaria, the annual L. annua and the perennial L. rediviva, which have flattened seed pods with a silvery sheen on the inner membrane. Cf. honesty n. 7a. Also called satin, satin flower. Now rare.
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1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 378 We cal this herb in English Pennie flower..in Northfolk Sattin, & white Sattin.
1659 R. Lovell Παμβοτανολογια 308 The white, and long codded, white sattin flower.
1741 P. Collinson Let. 21 July in J. Bartram Corr. (1992) 159 I have also added Some Seed of Viola Lunaria or White Satten flower by some called Honesty.
1785 T. Martyn in tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxiii. 324 The brilliant whiteness of these silicles has occasioned this plant [sc. Honesty] to be called White Sattin.
1815 Encycl. Londinensis XIII. 772/1 The seed-vessels, when full ripe, become transparent, and of a clear shining white like satin, whence this plant has acquired the name of white satin.
1889 O. V. Aplin Birds Oxfordshire 55 Glades blue with wild hyacinth varied with pink lychnis and white satin flowers.
1948 Contemp. Rev. July 245 No country garden is without ‘Honesty’ or ‘White Satin-flower’ as it is sometimes called.
2001 B. Damrosch Theme Gardens (rev. ed.) Index 246/3 Lunaria annua (honesty, money plant, or white satin).
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