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单词 willow-herb
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ˈwillow-herbn.

Etymology: So named from the resemblance of the leaves to the willow's. Compare the earlier herb willow (herb n. Compounds 2b). All the plants so named were formerly included under the name Lysimachia.
1. Yellow loosestrife, Lysimachia vulgaris.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > primrose and allied flowers > yellow loosestrife
herb willow1548
loosestrife1548
yellow loosestrife1548
lysimachia1578
willow-herb1578
willow-wort1605
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. li. 74 The first [Lysimachion] which we may call Golden or yellow Lysimachus, Willow herbe, and Louse strife.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 386 Lysimachia lutea. Yellow Willow herbe.
1755 B. Stillingfleet Cal. Flora 2 Sept.
1857 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. IV. 236 (Great Yellow Loosestrife)..is sometimes called Yellow Willow-herb.
2. Any plant of the extensive genus Epilobium, esp. E. angustifolium and hirsutum.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Onagraceae (willow-herbs) > [noun]
willow-herb1578
bindweed nightshade1597
enchanter's nightshade1597
rosebay1597
willow1597
French willow1601
willow-flower1633
rose withy1650
codlings-and-cream1670
willow weed1741
gooseberry fool1785
epilobium1809
onagrad1846
cherry-pie1857
apple pie plant1858
slink-weed1858
fiddle-grass1878
epilobe1883
satin flower1891
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. li. 73 Lysimachium purpureum primum. The first purple red, willow herbe.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 386 Lysimachia siliquosa. Codded Willow herbe... Chamænerion. Rose bay Willow herbe.
1697 E. Lhwyd Let. 22 Sept. in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) (1712) 27 501 The Common French Willow-Herb.
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xix. 263 Our European Willow-herbs are nearly allied to this, differing only in having a calyx of four leaves.
1802 S. T. Coleridge Picture 89 Lychnis, and willow-herb, and fox-glove bells.
1861 S. Thomson Wanderings among Wild Flowers (rev. ed.) iii. 224 The willow-herb, or Epilobium genus.
1899 S. R. Crockett Kit Kennedy xxxvii A little ten-yard square island all overgrown with red purple willow herb.
3. spiked or purple-spiked willow-herb: purple loosestrife, Lythrum Salicaria.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > loosestrife and allied flowers
loosestrife1548
purple loosestrife1548
red loosestrife1548
red lysimachus1578
spiked or purple-spiked willow-herb1578
withy-herb1578
water willow1585
willow-wort1731
willow weed1866
swamp loosestrife-
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. li. 75 Poynted willow Herbe with the purple floure.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 386 Lysimachia purpurea, spicata. Spiked Willow herbe.
1755 B. Stillingfleet Cal. Flora 1 July
4. In full hooded willow-herb: Scutellaria galericulata or S. minor.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > hooded willow-herb
willow-herb1597
skull-cap1760
mad-dog skullcap1822
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 387 Lysimachia galericulata, or hoodded Willowe herbe.
1777 J. Lightfoot Flora Scotica I. 320 [Scutellaria minor]... Little red Scull cap, or Willow-herb.
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. iv. 48 Some few only having little or no smell, as..hooded Willow-herb.
1866 in J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2016).
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