释义 |
lords and ladies ‘A very general name for Arum maculatum L., given in reference to the dark and light spadices, the dark being the lords, the light the ladies’ (Britten & Holland Plant-n.).
1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 317 Lords and Ladies, Arum. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 99 Oft under trees we nestled in a ring, Culling out ‘lords and ladies’. 1901Longm. Mag. Apr. 533 She set boys to collect roots of lords and ladies. |