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单词 crown-thistle
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crown-thistle
crown-thistle n. Obsolete rare (a) the woolly thistle, Cirsium eriophorum (= friar's crown n. at friar n. Compounds 2); (b) (perhaps by confusion) the crown imperial, Fritillaria imperialis.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole 333 At the toppe of euery branch there breaketh out a great whitish round prickly head..and doth so well resemble the bald crowne of a Frier..it deseruedly receiued the name of the Friers Crowne Thistle.]
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Crown-thistle or Friers Crown-thistle, a sort of Herb.
1785 Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. (ed. 6) Crown-thistle, [corona imperialis.] A flower.
1883 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. II. ii Crown-thistle, the name given by Johnson to a plant which he calls Corona imperialis... He bestows the same name on the Crown imperial.
1889 Cent. Dict. Crown imperial, a liliaceous garden plant... Also called crown-thistle.
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