| 单词 | childing daisy |
| 释义 | > as lemmaschilding daisy 3. Horticulture. Designating plants which produce younger or smaller florets around an older blossom (regarded as the parent); as childing daisy, childing pink, etc. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > inflorescence or collective flower > [adjective] > of or having florets > childing childing1629 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole lxxii. 322 Bellis minor hortensis prolifera. Double double Daisies or childing Daisies... The chiefest variety consisteth in this, that it beareth many small double flowers, standing vpon very short stalkes round about the middle flower. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 64/2 The Childing Pink groweth..on upright stalks. 1776 W. Withering Bot. Arrangem. Veg. Great Brit. I. 255 Dianthus..Pink..Limewort. Wild childing Sweet William. 1786 J. Abercrombie Gardeners Daily Assistant 19/2 Childing marigold. 1833 H. Bourne Florist's Man. 135 The blossoms of the Childing Sweet-William expand about eight in the morning, and close again about one in the afternoon. 1879 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants (ed. 3) Childing Cudweed, Gnaphalium germanicum. 1956 A. M. Coats Flowers & their Hist. 31 Double garden daisies were grown in Elizabethan times, and also the ‘hen and chickens’ or ‘childing’ daisy, that had a number of smaller flowers encircling the main one. 1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 103/1 Childing pink, Petrorhagia nanteuilii, is a delicate annual, not recognised as growing in Britain until 1962. < as lemmas |
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