单词 | wind-rose |
释义 | wind-rosen. 1. Name for several papaveraceous plants, or their flowers: a. The ‘bastard wild poppy’, Argemone mexicana, or the common wild poppy, Papaver Rhœas. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > poppy and allied flowers > allied flowers poppyOE horned poppy1548 yellow poppy1548 sea poppy1562 garden poppy1577 wind-rose1597 prickly poppy1648 squatmore1691 oriental poppy1731 Welsh poppy1731 infernal fig1760 Mexican poppy1811 Meconopsis1836 redcap1846 horn-poppy1851 squirrel-corn1856 eschscholtzia1857 dielytra1864 Dicentra1866 yellow thistle1866 turkey-corn1884 Shirley poppy1886 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 301 The bastard wilde Poppie is called..in English winde Rose. b. The violet horned poppy, Rœmeria hybrida. ΚΠ 1874 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Suppl. Rose, Wind, Römeria hybrida. 2. Meteorology. A diagram indicating the relative frequency, force, etc. of (or the temperature, etc. accompanying) the winds from the various points of the compass at some given place. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > study or science of weather > diagrams, graphs, or lines > [noun] > wind wind-rose1846 anemogram1868 isotach1947 1846 E. J. Sabine tr. A. von Humboldt Cosmos I. 310 Tables of atmospheric pressure accompanying different winds, which have received the name of barometric windroses. 1883 R. H. Scott Elem. Meteorol. ix. 166 The best mode of publishing the records for different stations is the construction of ‘wind-roses’. 1883 R. H. Scott Elem. Meteorol. xiv. 278 Dr. Hann..has calculated the prevalent winds and the thermal windroses for a great number of stations. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1597 |
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