| 单词 | yellow pheasant's eye |
| 释义 | > as lemmasyellow pheasant's eye 2. In early use: the ornamental annual plant (and occasional cornfield weed) Adonis annua, having crimson flowers with a black centre. Later also (frequently with distinguishing word): any of various other members of the genus Adonis (family Ranunculaceae); esp. (more fully yellow pheasant's eye) the yellow-flowered perennial plant A. vernalis. Cf. Adonis n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > buttercup and allied flowers > delphinium or larkspur red maytheeOE brown maythec1450 lark's foota1500 red maidweed1548 consound1578 lark's claw1578 larkspur1578 ox-eye1578 red camomile1578 Adonis1597 lark-heel1597 lark's toes1597 monkshood1597 rose-a-ruby1597 delphinium1666 pheasant's eye1727 red Morocco1760 rocket larkspur1778 blue rocket larkspur1784 bee-larkspur1846 1727 J. Laurence New Syst. Agric. (Dublin ed.) 286/3 Annual Flowers from Seed... Pheasant's Eye. 1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum Adonis-flower, or Pheasant's-eye, is Flos Adonis... It grows about half a Foot high, with fine cut Leaves, and Blossoms of a beautiful Scarlet Colour. 1777 W. Curtis Flora Londinensis I. Pl. 106 The Pheasant's eye..is one of those plants which are annually cried about our streets under the name of red Morocco. 1854 S. Thomson Wanderings among Wild Flowers (ed. 4) iii. 209 The pheasant's eye,..with its bright scarlet flowers. 1970 J. McPhee Crofter & Laird 41 We just go out for a wee walk and see the wild flowers... Daisies, celandines, sea pinks, heath orchis, pheasant's eyes, wild iris, whin, broom, meadow rue. 1992 Private Eye 13 Mar. 13/2 Familiar weeds such as cornflower, corn cockle, rough poppy, pheasant's eye and shepherd's needle were bordering on extinction until the Game Conservancy started introducing ‘headlands’ of farmer-free acres. 2001 Homestyle Apr. 58/2 The earliest perennial, yellow pheasant's eye, hugs the ground. < as lemmas |
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