单词 | danes-blood |
释义 | Danes'-bloodn. A local name for plants abundant on sites noted for the slaughter of Danes. a. The Danewort or Dwarf Elder.The berries of this plant are not red, but black or reddish black, yielding a violet dye. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > dwarf elder wallwortc725 lithwortc1000 ebulla1398 lich-wortc1450 Daneworta1491 Danes'-blood1590 Daneweed1737 1590 W. Camden Brit. (new ed.) 352 Rustici autem ebulum quod sanguineis baccis hîc [at Barklow] circumquaque copiose prouenit, non alio nomine quàm Danes-bloud, id est, Danicum sanguinem, etiamnum appellitant, ob multitudinem Danorum, qui eo bello ceciderunt. 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 707 Dane-wort, which, with bloud-red berries, commeth vp here plenteously, they still call by no other name, then Danes~bloud, of the number of Danes that there were slaine. a1697 J. Aubrey Nat. Hist. Wilts. (1847) i. ix. 50 Danes-blood (ebulus) about Slaughtonford is plenty. There was heretofore..a great fight with the Danes, which made the inhabitants give it that name. 1875 Gardeners' Chron. 4 515. b. Clustered Bell-flower, Campanula glomerata. ΚΠ 1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. III. 342 The author..found this clustered bell-flower [at Bartlow, Cambs.] largely scattered about these mounds..and was told that it was ‘Danes-blood’. Categories » c. The Pasque-flower, Anemone Pulsatilla.So called in East Anglia, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire. (Britten & Holland.) This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < n.1590 |
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