释义 |
cuckoo's meat, cuckoo-meat Wood-sorrel, Oxalis Acetosella, which flowers at the time the cuckoo is heard; also called gowk's-meat.
1516Gt. Herbal Contents ch. l, Alleluya, wood sorell or cocowes meate. 1538Turner Libellus, Cuckowes meat, Oxys. 1578Lyte Dodoens iv. xliii. 503 This herbe is called in..English Wood-sorel..Cockowes meate. 1853G. Johnston Nat. Hist. E. Bord. 50. 1860 H. Marryat Jutland I. v. 74 The forest is carpeted with the green trefoil leaves of the ‘giögemad’ or cuckoo's meat. b. Locally applied, in error, to Robert's Geranium, G. Robertianum; Greater Stitchwort, Stellaria Holostea; and Sour Dock, Rumex Acetosella. |