| 单词 | yellow mallow |
| 释义 | > as lemmasyellow mallow yellow mallow n. now historical and rare any of various yellow-flowered mallows of the genus Abutilon and related genera, esp. velvet-leaf, Abutilon theophrasti; cf. Indian mallow n. at Indian adj. and n. Compounds 1a(b). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > mallow flowers abutilon1578 yellow mallow1597 Indian mallow1699 lavatera1731 modesty1809 butter print1872 Mormon weed1872 old maid1880 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 790 The yellowe Mallowe riseth vp with a round stalke,..couered with broade leaues somthing rounde, but sharpe pointed; from the bosome of which leaues come foorth yellow flowers, not vnlike to those of the common Mallowe in forme. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Abutilon Abutilon, Dod. The common Yellow Mallow. Abutilon Indicum: J. B. The Indian Yellow Mallow. 1876 C. E. Hobbs Bot. Hand-bk. 145 Arbutilon condalum, Yellow mallow. 2004 D. L. Asch in A.-M. Cantwell et al. Aboriginal Ritual & Econ. in Eastern Woodlands 314/1 This was Rafinesque's Sida abutilon L., or vernacularly ‘yellow mallow’, i.e., the aforementioned Abutilon theophrasti, now commonly called ‘velvetleaf’ or (East-)‘Indian mallow’. < as lemmas |
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