单词 | yellow bird's-nest |
释义 | > as lemmasyellow bird's-nest c. A pale yellow herbaceous plant with scale-like leaves and a raceme of drooping flowers, Monotropa hypopitys (family Ericaceae), which is a mycotroph typically found in beech and pine woods. In later use more fully yellow bird's-nest. ΚΠ 1746 J. Blackstone Specimen Botanicum 39 Orobanche Hypopitys... Bird's Nest smelling like Primrose Roots... In a Wood near Maidstone, Kent. 1865 West of Scotl. Hort. Mag. Dec. 204 It [sc. the order Monotropeæ] is a small tribe containing only three genera, only one of which Monotropa is represented in our native flora by a solitary species Monotropa Hypopitys (yellow bird's-nest). a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1210 In the British flora the bird's-nest orchis, the coral-root, and the bird's nest (which belongs to the Heath family) are examples. 2018 P. Marren Mushrooms (new ed.) ii. 30 One of the most remarkable ‘fungalscapes’ of recent years was a forest of Yellow Bird's-nests growing on a woodland bank in a dense ring, as if they themselves were the mushrooms. < as lemmas |
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