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单词 african marigold
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African marigold
b. A plant of the genus Tagetes (family Asteraceae ( Compositae)), native to Central and South America and Mexico but cultivated elsewhere, and having feathery foliage and flowers in various shades of yellow, orange, maroon, etc.; esp. T. erecta (more fully African marigold) and T. patula (= French marigold n.). Also: a flower or flowering stem of any of these plants. Usually with distinguishing word.The identity of the plant referred to in quot. 1548 is unclear. Turner does not list it among the ‘Names of newe founde Herbes, wherof is no mention in any olde auncient wryter’, implying that he associated the name ‘french Marigoulde’ not with the exotic Tagetes, but with an established Old World plant (perhaps a yellow pansy or wallflower).
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1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. G.viij Viola flammea..otherwyse called Phlox or Phlogion is the herbe as Gesner thynketh, whiche is called in duche Fluelblum, and in englishe veluet floure or french Marigoulde.]
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. xxv. 176 We do call this floure Turkie Gillofers, and French Marygoldes.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Oeillet d'Inde, the Turkie, or Affrican Marigold, or Gilliflower; also, the French Marigold, or Gingioline flower (which is the single kind of the Affrican).
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxvi. 397 French and African Marigolds, two of the gaudy annuals of the flower garden.
1895 B. M. Croker Village Tales (1896) 150 Wreaths of evil-smelling marigolds (that noxious flower so amazingly dear to the native of India).
1917 H. W. R. Marloth Dict. Common Names Plants 48 Khaki bush, Tagetes minuta, one of the Mexican marigolds which has become a troublesome weed.
1975 Country Life 13 Feb. 388/2 Tagetes marigolds are not at all bad in shade.
2002 Horticulture July–Aug. 24/2 Perhaps they haven't yet discovered the charming Gem series of signet marigolds (Tagetes tenuifolia ).
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