| 释义 |
foxglove|ˈfɒksglʌv|
[OE. foxes glófa (? pl.) see fox n. and glove.
The reason for the second part of the name is obvious, as the flower resembles a finger-stall in shape; cf. the Lat. name. Why the plant was associated with the fox is not so clear; but cf. Norw. revbjelde = ‘fox bell’.]
1. The popular name of Digitalis purpurea, a common ornamental flowering plant.
c1000Sax. Leechd. I. 54 Herba tricnos manicos þæt is foxes clofe [v.r. glofa]. c1265Names Plants in Wr.-Wülcker 556/6 Saluinca..foxesgloue. a1387Sinon. Barthol. (Anecd. Oxon.) 15 Ceroterica, Ceroteca vulpis, foxglove. 1578Lyte Dodoens ii. xxiv. 175 Foxe gloue floureth chiefly in July and August. 1664Evelyn Kal. Hort. (1729) 214 Columbines, Iron-colour'd Fox-gloves, Holly-hocks. 1810Scott Lady of L. i. xii, Fox-glove and nightshade, side by side, Emblems of punishment and pride.
b. Used in medicine: see digitalis.
1801Med. Jrnl. V. 209 The Fox-glove of which the tincture is made, is commonly procured from the Hall. 1861Geo. Eliot Silas M. 13 Recalling the relief his mother had found from a simple preparation of foxglove.
2. Applied to various plants of other genera; e.g. formerly to the Mullein (Verbascum Thapsus).
1587L. Mascall Govt. Cattle (1600) 242 The iuyce of heg⁓taper, called Foxegloue.
3. attrib. and Comb., as foxglove-bell, foxglove-leaf, foxglove-spire; foxglove-shaped a. (see quot.).
a1821Keats Sonn. iii, Where the deer's swift leap Startles the wild bee from the *foxglove bell.
1811A. T. Thomson Lond. Disp. (1818) 610 Take of *foxglove leaves dried, a drachm.
1856Henslow Dict. Bot. Terms, *Foxglove-shaped, a nearly cylindrical but somewhat irregular and inflated tube, formed like the corolla of a Digitalis.
1850Tennyson In Mem. lxxxiii, The *foxglove-spire. |