单词 | daneweed |
释义 | Daneweedn. †(a) A local name for Eryngium campestre. Obsolete. (b) = Danewort n. (Prior Plant-n. 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 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Umbelliferae (umbellifers) > [noun] > eryngium eryngium1578 hundred-headed thistle1578 rattlesnake weed1651 Daneweed1737 fever-weed1759 friar's goose1861 spirit weed1926 1737 W. Stukeley in W. C. Lukis Family Mem. W. Stukeley (1887) III. 56 Much daneweed still grows upon the Roman road in Castor fields. 1748 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 4) II. 416 Every thing hereabouts is attributed to the Danes, because of the neighbouring Daventry, which they suppose to have been built by them. The Road hereabouts..being overgrown with Daneweed [Eryngium], they fansy it sprung from the Blood of the Danes, slain in Battle. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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