| 单词 | love-in-a-mist | |||||||||
| 释义 | love-in-a-mistlove-in-a-mist(lŭv′ĭn-ə-mĭst′)love-in-a-mistlove′-in-a-mist′n.
love-in-a-mistlove-in-a-mist,hardy annual garden plant (Nigella damascena) of the family Ranunculaceae (buttercupbuttercupor crowfoot, common name for the Ranunculaceae, a family of chiefly annual or perennial herbs of cool regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Thought to be one of the most primitive families of dicotyledenous plants, the Ranunculaceae typically have a simple ..... Click the link for more information. family), having finely cut foliage and blue or white flowers surrounded by a cluster of thready bracts. It is also called fennel-flower—as are other plants of the genus—and devil-in-the-bush. The seeds have been used medicinally. Seeds of another species (N. sativa) are called black cumin and have been used in the Old World for seasoning; they are thought to be the fitch of the Bible (Isa. 28.25, 27). True cumin and true fennel are unrelated plants of the parsleyparsley, Mediterranean aromatic herb (Petroselinum crispum or Apium petroselinum) of the carrot family, cultivated since the days of the Romans for its foliage, used in cookery as a seasoning and garnish. ..... Click the link for more information. family. Love-in-a-mist is classified in the division MagnoliophytaMagnoliophyta , division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, and roots, and vascular, or conducting, tissue (xylem and phloem). ..... Click the link for more information. , class Magnoliopsida, order Ranunculales, family Ranunculaceae. love-in-a-mist
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love-in-a-mist - tropical American passion flower with finely dissected bracts; stems malodorous when crushed