单词 | dead-nettle |
释义 | dead-nettlen. See also dea-nettle n. The English name for plants of the genus Lamium (family Labiatæ), having leaves like those of a nettle, but which do not sting; esp. L. album white dead-nettle, and L. purpureum red dead-nettle; also applied to L. Galeobdolon ( G. luteum) yellow dead-nettle or archangel, and occasionally to species of Stachys or other labiates. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > dead-nettle or hemp-nettle blind-nettleeOE nettleeOE dead-nettle1398 red archangela1425 red dead-nettlea1425 archangel1440 deaf-nettlec1440 swan's tonguec1450 dea-nettle?1530 henbit1597 nettle-hemp1597 day-nettle1635 base horehound1736 Ballota1778 weasel-snout1796 hemp-nettle1801 glidewort1866 Lamium1974 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xvii. cxciii. 730 Of netles is dowble kynde, one brennyth and bytyth, and another manere hyghte the deed nettyll or the blynde nettyll. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. lxxxviii. 130 There be two kindes of Dead Nettel. The one..smelleth but little, the other..hath a strong and stinking sauour. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. iv. 45 The White Dead-nettle..has no affinity with Nettles..except in the shape of the leaves. 1879 J. Lubbock Sci. Lect. i. 1 The Common White Deadnettle. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1398 |
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