释义 |
silver-bush Also silver bush. 1. The plant Jupiter's beard.
1640Parkinson Theatr. Bot. 1459 Iovis barba frutex, the Silver Bush. 1668Wilkins Real Char. 112 Winged hoary shining leaves, bearing yellow flowers in clusters... Silver Bush. 1678Phillips (ed. 4), Silverbush, a Plant called in Latin Barba Jovis, kept as a great rarity by divers Herbalists. 1731Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Colutea, Ethiopian Bladder-Sena, with Scarlet Flowers, and Leaves like the Silver Bush. 1785Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxv. (1794) 353 That which is generally called Jupiter's beard or Silver bush, from the splendid whiteness of the leaves. 1866Treas. Bot. 1059/1. 2. local. Traveller's joy.
1886Britten & Holland Plant-n., Silver Bush, Clematis Vitalba,—Jersey. |