单词 | cardamine |
释义 | cardaminen. Botany. Originally: any of various cresses (cress n. 1). In later use spec.: any member of the genus Cardamine (family Brassicaceae), comprising annual and perennial herbaceous plants with white, pink, or purple flowers, including the cuckoo-flower or lady's smock ( C. pratensis) and the bitter-cresses. Also (in form Cardamine): the genus itself.Valid publication of the genus name: Linnaeus Species Plantarum (1753) 654. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > cruciferous flowers > white or purple flowers garden rocket1548 queen's gillyflower1573 cuckoo-flower1578 damask violet1578 dame's-violet1578 rogue's gilliflower1578 wild passerage1578 lady's smock1593 Canterbury bells1597 close-sciences1597 sea stock-gillyflower1597 cardamine1609 melancholic gentleman1629 melancholy gentleman1629 Whitsun gilliflower1656 Hesperis1666 rocket1731 queen's violet1733 queen's July-flower1760 Virginian stock1760 spinka1774 damewort1776 virgin-stock1786 pink1818 sea-stock1849 clown's mustard1861 rock beauty1870 milksile- 1609 P. Pomarius Enchiridion Med. 123 The Chocheleria, water-mints, and Cardamines, doeth deuide and extenuate and also purge by vrin. 1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum at Nasturtium The Great Cardamine, or Lady Smocks, shoot forth several long stalks of winged Leaves. 1799 Bot. Mag. 13 452 Such as are attached to the smaller alpine plants, will regard this species of Cardamine as worthy of a place in their collections. 1845 A. Gray Let. 23 Apr. in D. Jackson & M. L. Spence Exped. J. C. Frémont (1970) I. 412 There are plenty of cardamines with compound leaves & the leaflets petiolulate. 1875 J. Veitch Tweed 27 The slender cardamine, first lilac hued, Then growing white and pure. 1939 E. D. Laborde tr. E. de Martonne Shorter Physical Geogr. (rev. ed.) xxi. 334 Collect a series of plants peculiar to the meadows, e.g., buttercup, pilewort, cardamine, iris, etc. 2001 Guardian 12 May (Weekend Suppl.) 89/2 The two other cardamines I grow are also moisture lovers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1609 |
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