| 单词 | englishman's foot |
| 释义 | > as lemmasEnglishman's foot Englishman's foot n. North American (now historical) greater plantain, Plantago major; cf. English plantain n. at English adj. and n. Compounds 1b. ΚΠ 1687 J. Clayton Let. in Philos. Trans. 1739–40 (Royal Soc.) (1742) 41 145 Our Plantain..[in Virginia] they call..the Englishman's-foot. 1861 P. Lankester Wild Flowers 109 Plantain..has been named, by the natives in some of our settlements, ‘the Englishman's Foot’. 1942 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 86 113/1 Indian tradition was emphatic..about such a widespread plant-pest as Plantago major, to which the Indians gave the name of ‘Englishman's foot’. 2014 J. Eastman Wildflowers Eastern U.S. 117/2 Supposedly common plantain followed the Roman legions wherever they set foot. Native Americans, observing the plant's spread, carried the analogy further by naming it ‘Englishman's foot’ and ‘white man's footprint’. < as lemmas |
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