单词 | common self-heal |
释义 | > as lemmascommon self-heal A low-growing Eurasian plant with entire leaves and squarish heads of small violet-blue flowers, Prunella vulgaris (family Labiatae), typically found in meadows, and used medicinally in the treatment of wounds, sore throat, and various other conditions (in later use more fully common self-heal); (occasionally also, usually with distinguishing word) any of the other plants of the genus Prunella. In early use also: †any of various other plants believed to have healing properties, including sanicle, Sanicula europaea, and burnet saxifrage, Pimpinella saxifraga (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > names applied to various plants or parts > self-heal self-heallOE brunel1527 prunella1527 carpenter's herb1578 hook-heal1578 prunel1578 sicklewort1597 prince's feather1818 hook-weed1861 lOE Durham Plant Gloss. 17 Sanicula, sylfhele. lOE Recipe (Dresden Dc.185) in H. Varnhagen De Glossis Nonnullis Anglicis (1902) 9 Ad capitis uulnus: accipe betonicam et garcliue et sulfelæ et senecium. ?a1350 in T. Hunt Plant Names Medieval Eng. (1989) 190 [Ointerele] anglice selfhele. a1400 J. Mirfield Sinonoma Bartholomei (1882) 13 Betonica major, selfhele. ?a1425 (?1373) Lelamour Herbal (1938) f. 8 Bigula, Browne bugill, som calliþ him silfe hele and sum calliþ him hartworte. ?a1450 Agnus Castus (Stockh.) (1950) 166 Ipia maior is an herbe þat men clepe pympernol or selfhol or weyewourth or morcrop and it haȝt lewys lyk to thykwed [read chykwed] but þe lewys of þis herbe are lesse and it beryth a flour lyk red purpyl. c1450 Med. Recipes (BL Add. 33996) in F. Heinrich Mittelengl. Medizinbuch (1896) 201 Tak crowsope, penywort, sulfhele. 1526 Grete Herball ccclv. sig. Tvj/1 De pimpinella. Selfe heale or pympyrnell. 1568 W. Turner Herbal iii. 61 Selfe heale is good to heale grene woundes. 1649 N. Culpeper Physicall Directory 7 Consolida minor is that we call, Self-heal, and the Lattins Prunella. 1664 Dr. Burnet in S. Pepys Diary 1 July (1971) V. 363 Take..of Selfeheale, of Red roses of each one Hand-full. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 326 Self-heal, Sanicula. ?1789 J. Graefer Descriptive Catal. Herbaceous or Perennial Plants 90 Prunella laciniata. Cut-leaved Self-heal. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 944 The seeds..of the common self-heal, Prunella vulgaris, mix themselves with those of clover. 1880 R. Jefferies Round about Great Estate 132 In the grass the short selfheal shows. 1946 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 33 230/1 Creeping Jennie, self-heal, tomato, and tobacco. 1972 R. Adams Watership Down xviii. 108 The grass..smelt of thyme and self-heal. 2016 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 4 June (Gardening section) 5 Daisies and self-heal cover the lawn. < as lemmas |
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