单词 | common or wall germander |
释义 | > as lemmascommon or wall germander Frequently with distinguishing word. Any of the plants constituting the genus Teucrium (family Lamiaceae ( Labiatae)), comprising aromatic shrubs and subshrubs native chiefly to Mediterranean regions, with tubular pink to purple flowers often with a prominent lower lip; esp. (more fully common or wall germander) T. chamaedrys, an evergreen shrub with bright pink flowers, formerly used medicinally and now commonly grown as an ornamental. Also (usually with distinguishing word): any of several speedwells (genus Veronica) (now only in compounds (see Compounds)).In early quots. the exact plant intended is not always clear.In quot. 1864 with reference to the blue colour of the flowers of germander speedwell, Veronica chamaedrys.garlic, rock, tree, water, wood germander, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > germander plants hindheala1300 ambrosea1350 wild sagea1400 germander?a1425 tetterwosea1500 English treacle1548 garlic-germander1548 scordium1548 wood-sage1571 garlic-sage1597 horse-chire1597 tree germander1597 mountain sage1659 marum1666 teucrium1673 mastic plant1718 thorny germander1822 bitter sage1865 ?a1425 (?1373) Lelamour Herbal (1938) f. 27v (MED) Germandir haviþ sede like to a peny..hit helith þe potager..delyuereth woman of dede childe..soudith brokyn bonys. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 190 Germawnder, herbe, germandra. 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. C.iv Chamedrys called..in englishe Germander or englishe Triacle. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. lxxvi. 112 Of Teucrion or wilde Germander. 1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. xx. i. 326 Our common germander or thistle benet is..of..great power in medicine. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 344 Take of Iermander foure ounces, of Gum dragant, and of dryed roses. 1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) ii. ccxii. 657 Before creeping Germander was knowne, this wilde kinde bare the name of Germander amongst the Apothecaries, and was vsed for the right Germander in the compositions of Medicines. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 109/1 Tree Germander hath the Flowers..white, in a round pointed husk. 1751 J. Hill Hist. Materia Medica xxvi. 369 There are many Species of it [sc. germander], but the only one used in the Shops is that called the common Germander. 1789 J. Pilkington View Derbyshire I. viii. 325 Veronica chamædris, Wild germander. 1811 A. T. Thomson London Dispensatory ii. 390 Wall germander has been accounted tonic, stomachic [etc.]. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Sea Dreams 4 They, thinking that her clear germander eye Droopt in the giant-factoried city-gloom, Came, with a month's leave given them, to the sea. 1896 E. Step Wayside & Woodland Blossoms 2nd ser. 102 Wall Germander..is a garden escape, found rarely on old walls. 1916 L. B. Wilder My Garden xviii. 304 Germander, Teucrium Chamædrys, is a nice little woody plant with rose-coloured blossoms and pleasantly scented foliage. 1964 E. Salisbury Weeds & Aliens (ed. 2) v. 126 An annual or biennial plant of southern and central Europe, which is a very rare weed of chalky fields in southern England and regarded as ‘native’ there, is Cut-leaved Germander (Teucrium botrys). 2008 S. Calhoun Designer Plant Combinations 52 I particularly enjoy the transitions through the seasons—when the germander first starts to bloom. < as lemmas |
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