| 单词 | compass-plant |
| 释义 | > as lemmascompass-plant compass-plant n. = compass-flower n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > compass-plant or silphium silphium1771 turpentine weed1819 rosinweed1831 resinweed1838 polar plant1842 compass-flower1847 compass-plant1848 cup-plant1848 pilot weed1848 turpentine shrub- 1848 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. 219 Compass-plant. 1857 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1856–7 2 671 The large fleshy root of the rasin-weed, or compass-plant (Silphinium laciniatum) appeared to have been eaten very freely in Autumn at least. 1870 Gardeners' Chron. 10 Sept. 1213 The compass plant, a wild sunflower of the western prairies. 1882 Alvard in Amer. Naturalist xvi. 626 Compass Plant..The property is best exhibited in the radical leaf, which presents its faces to the rising and setting sun. < as lemmas |
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