α. 1500s–1700s dog's stones.
β. 1600s–1700s dogstones.
单词 | dogstones |
释义 | dogstonesn.α. 1500s–1700s dog's stones. β. 1600s–1700s dogstones. Now historical. Any of various British orchids; (also) the rounded tubers of these plants, formerly used medicinally (rare). Cf. dog's cods n. at dog n.1 Compounds 3c. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > orchids satyrionOE bollockwort?a1300 sanicle14.. bollock?a1425 martagon1548 orchis1559 dogstones1562 hare's-ballocks1562 stone1562 bollock grass1578 dog's cods1578 dog's cullions1578 double-leaf1578 fly-orchis1578 goat's cullions1578 goat's orchis1578 priest's pintle1578 twayblade1578 bee-orchis1597 bifoil1597 bird's nest1597 bird's orchis1597 butterfly orchis1597 fenny-stones1597 gelded satyrion1597 gnat satyrion1597 humble-bee orchis1597 lady's slipper1597 sweet ballocks1597 two-blade1605 cullions1611 bee-flower1626 fly-flower1640 man orchis1670 musk orchis1670 moccasin flower1680 gnat-flower1688 faham tea1728 Ophrys1754 green man orchis1762 Arethusa1764 honey flower1771 cypripedium1775 rattlesnake plantain1778 Venus's slipper1785 Adam and Eve1789 lizard orchis179. epidendrum1791 Pogonia?1801 Vanda1801 cymbidium1815 Oncidium1822 putty-root1822 Noah's Ark1826 yellow moccasin1826 gongora1827 cattleya1828 green man1828 nervine1828 stanhopea1829 dove-flower1831 catasetum1836 Odontoglossum1836 Miltonia1837 letter plant1838 spread eagle1838 letter-leaf1839 swan-plant1841 orchid1843 disa1844 masdevallia1845 Phalaenopsis1846 faham1850 Indian crocus1850 moccasin plant1850 pleione1851 dove orchis1852 nerve root1854 Holy Ghost flower1862 basket-plant1865 lizard's tongue1866 mousetail1866 Sobralia1866 swan-neck1866 swanwort1866 Indian shoe1876 odontoglot1879 wreathewort1879 moth orchid1880 rattlesnake orchid1881 dendrobe1882 dove-plant1882 Madeira orchis1882 man orchis1882 swan-flower1884 slipper-orchid1885 slipper orchis1889 mayflower1894 scorpion orchid1897 moederkappie1910 dove orchid1918 monkey orchid1925 man orchid1927 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball ii. f. 152 There are diuers kindes of orchis..ye other kindes ar in other countrees called fox stones or hear stones, and they may after ye Greke be called dog-stones. 1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 156 Cynosorchis maior. Great Dogs stones. 1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 157 Spotted Dogs stones bringeth foorth narrow leaues. 1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants ii. i. i. 58 Some also have two or more Roots..of which, some are distinctly fastend to the bottome of the Stalk, as in Dogstones. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 311 Dog's Stones, Orchis. 1773 Gentleman's Mag. 43 57 Salep is a preparation of the root of Orchis, or Dogstones. 1814 J. Lunan Hortus Jamaicensis I. 267 Dog-stones. Orchis... This is so named from the form of the roots in many of the species. 1848 J. Boag Pop. Eng. Dict. I. 427/2 Dog-stones.., a plant, the orchis or fool-stones. 1955 G. Grigson Englishman's Flora 425 De'il's foot, Berw; dog stones, Som..; fox stones, Dor, Som. 1973 C. A. Wilson Food & Drink in Brit. vi. 214 A similar drink was already known in parts of England, produced from ‘dogstones’, the roots of the native early purple orchis. 2005 D. Karlin Proust's Eng. ii. 88 The Greek word ὄρχις (Latin orchis) means testicle, and English herbals record ‘ballock's-grass’, ‘sweet ballocks’, and ‘dogstones’ as names of orchids. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1562 |
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