| 单词 | canker rose |
| 释义 | > as lemmascanker rose canker rose n. (a) the dog rose (cf. sense 8b); †(b) the field poppy (cf. sense 8c) (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorn-tree or -bush > brier or wild rose-bush > [noun] brierc1000 eglaterea1400 eglantinec1400 hound's thornc1420 dogberry1527 dog-briar1530 sweet-briar1538 brier-bush1562 dog bramble1567 canker1582 dog rose1597 canker rose1606 dog-thorn1694 cynorrhodon1706 bramble-rose1713 Scotch rose1731 white dog rose1770 brier-rose1810 bull-brier1860 missionary1881 burnet-rose1884 1606 H. Peacham Art of Drawing 14 A single or canker Rose. 1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) Table Eng. Names Canker rose, i. red Poppy. 1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 112 The Wild, or Canker-Rose, called Cinosbaton. 1883 R. Jefferies Nature near London 151 On the briar which holds the jacket the canker rose, which was green in summer, is now rosy. 1956 Shakespeare Q. 7 iii. 12 It [sc. the opposition] is now between the rose on the one hand and the thorn and the canker-rose on the other. 1983 PMLA 98 813/2 Canker roses, outwardly beautiful but lacking fragrance,..cannot live on in this way. < as lemmas |
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