| 单词 | devil's shirt buttons |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdevil's shirt buttons 2. English regional (chiefly southern). Usually in plural. Greater stitchwort, Rabelera (formerly Stellaria) holostea; the small white flowers of this plant. Also with modifier, in daddy's shirt buttons, devil's shirt buttons, gentlemen's shirt buttons. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Caryophyllaceae (chickweeds and allies) > [noun] > chickweeds and stitchworts chicken meateOE bird's-tonguea1300 stitchworta1300 chickenweedc1300 piglea1400 chickweed?a1425 craches1530 mouse-ear1578 all-bony1597 chickenwort1762 Stellaria1785 all bones1787 mouse-eared chickweed1789 cerastium1799 starwort1809 satin flower1836 adder's meat1853 thunder-flower1853 snap-jack1867 shirt button1880 1880 Monthly Packet Oct. 409 Local names of plants... Stellaria Holostea—Shirt-buttons, West Kent. 1893 Blyth Weekly News 24 June 6/2 The Stichwort or Shirt Button (Stellaria Holostea) which makes our hedge sides gay with its starry flowers. 1912 Bedfordshire Advertiser 3 May 6/2 This patch of Stitchwort—‘shirt-buttons’ some people call it from the size and colour of the flowers—grows along the moist hedge-bank with the hedge-parsley and yellow dead-nettle. 1965 Country Life 11 Feb. 283/1 East Anglian children dubbed it the Devil's Shirt Buttons. 1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 99/2 Greater Stitchwort,..Brassy buttons, Shirt buttons, Poor-man's-buttonhole, Daddy's shirt-buttons. 1998 Y. Verner Blooming Lawn iv. 41 Greater Stitchwort (Stellaria holostea)—also known by the more evocative name of gentlemen's shirt buttons. < as lemmas |
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