| 单词 | evergreen orpine |
| 释义 | > as lemmasevergreen orpine 1. Originally: any of various stonecrops. In later use: spec. the common Eurasian stonecrop Hylotelephium telephium, with flattened fleshy leaves and corymbs of dull purplish flowers (also called livelong); (also) (in full lesser orpine or evergreen orpine) H. anacampseros, native to southern Europe.stone orpine: see stone n. Compounds 2c. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Crassulaceae (stonecrop and allies) > [noun] > stonecrop sengreenc1000 stonecropc1000 orpine?a1300 orval?a1300 mouse grassc1300 stonehorea1400 Crassulac1400 sedumc1440 thrift1538 prick-madam1542 mousetail1548 livelong1578 wall pepper1578 worm-grass1578 country pepper1597 jack of the buttery1597 pricket1597 stone-pepper1597 trick-madam1600 trip-madam1693 midsummer mena1697 rosewort1725 roseroot1731 live forever1760 ice plant1818 wall moss1855 Jacka1876 wall grass1882 thick-leaf1884 ?a1300 in S. G. Hamilton Catal. MSS Worcester Cathedral (1906) 184 (MED) Crassula minor, orpin. a1400 J. Mirfield Sinonoma Bartholomei (1882) 17 (MED) Crassula major, aurum valet, an. orpin. a1500 Agnus Castus (Balliol Coll.) (1950) 153 (MED) Edera terrestis is an herbe þat men clepe orpyn or heyhoue; þis herbe haȝt lewyȝs lyk to catmynte..and it haȝt in þe crop a red flour. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. ix. f. 135v An herbe muche lyke vnto that which is commonly cauled Sengrene or Orpin. 1590 E. Spenser Muiopotmos 193 Coole Violets, and Orpine growing still. 1615 G. Markham Eng. House-wife (1668) ii. i. 37 Take of Orpents, Smallage, Ragwort,..of each a good handful. 1687 Philos. Trans. 1686–7 (Royal Soc.) 16 288 Orpines, Peionys, black Hellebore, some Althaea's, Monkshoods, Columbines, Larks-spur's. 1711 J. Thornhill Jrnl. 23 May in K. Fremantle Sir J. Thornhill's Sketch-bk. Travel Jrnl. 1711 (1975) II. 11 Orpin an hearb growing att Harwich, boyld in milk very good for a Cold & sore throat. 1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Fly Put some Hellebore with Orpin into Milk, and moisten the Place the Flies pitch upon. 1813 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening (ed. 5) xix. 359 Orpine, the lesser (anacampseros), a trailer. 1854 S. T. Dobell Balder xi. 51 Livelong orpine that cannot die. 1879 Herefordshire Times 28 June 13 A piece of orpine..was set in clay upon pieces of slate..and placed in the house, being termed a ‘Midsummer man’. 1922 H. S. Salt Call of Wildflower x. 83 Nor do the fields and lanes that adjoin the heath lack their distinctive charm. The orpine, or ‘live-long’, a handsome purple stonecrop, is not uncommon by the hedgeside. 1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 177/2 Orpine, Sedum telephium, is a relative of the showy garden ‘ice-plant’ or butterfly stonecrop. < as lemmas |
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