单词 | cranes-bill |
释义 | crane's-billcranesbilln. 1. Botany. A name for the various species (esp. the native British species) of the genus Geranium; so called from the long slender beak of the fruit.By the 16th cent. herbalists applied originally to only one species, apparently G. dissectum. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > geranium and allied flowers > allied flowers herb Roberta1300 stick pile?a1450 culverfootc1450 devil's needlea1500 crane's-bill1548 dove's-foot1548 geranium1548 shepherd's needle1562 bloodroot1578 Gratia Dei1578 sanguine root1578 pigeon's-foot1597 Roman cranesbill1648 robin1694 redshanka1722 musk1728 ragged Robert1734 pigeon-foot1736 rose geranium1773 mountain flowera1787 wood cranesbill1796 peppermint-scented geranium1823 stork's bill1824 wild geranium1840 musk geranium1845 pin grass1847 Robert1847 stinking crane's bill1857 mourning widow1866 pinweed1876 ivy-leaved pelargonium1887 ivy-geranium1894 regal1894 peppermint geranium1922 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. D.iij Geranium is of two kyndes. The one kynde is called Pinke nedle or Cranes byl, the other is called Pes columbinus of the commune Herbaries, and it maye be called in englishe Douefote. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 795 The rootes of this Cranes bill haue a little kinde of heat in them. 1693 T. P. Blount Nat. Hist. 8 One kind of Cranes-Bill, call'd Geranium Moschatum..smells just like Musk. 1756 J. Hill Brit. Herbal 196 The cranesbills are characterised..by their singular fruit. 1830 M. R. Mitford Our Village IV. 100 Carpets of flowers, primroses, orchises, cowslips, ground-ivy, crane's bill, cotton-grass. 1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xx Is there any blue half so pure, and deep, and tender, as that of the large crane's-bill, the Geranium pratense of the botanists? 2. Surgery. A kind of forceps with long jaws. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [noun] > forceps tenaclesc1400 tongsc1425 raven's bill1446 parrotbill1598 duck's bill1601 swan's bill1631 forceps1634 beaks1656 volsella1684 tenaculum1693 rostrum1722 crane's-bill1753 porte-aiguille1830 volsellum1851 vulsellum1863 iris-forceps1874 speculum forceps1875 bulldog forceps1880 1668 R. L'Estrange tr. F. G. de Quevedo y Villegas Visions (1708) 28 Came the Surgeons, laden with Pincers, Crane-bills, Catheters. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Crane's-bill, a kind of forceps used by surgeons, and so named from its figure. 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Crane's-bill, a pair of long-nosed pinchers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1548 |
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