| 单词 | fairies' hair |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfairies' hair fairies' hair n. Channel Islands (now rare) a white-flowered dodder, Cuscuta epithymum, parasitic on a wide variety of host plants, originally of Europe and now widespread. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > parasitic plants > [noun] > dodder doddera1300 hellweedc1510 choke-fitch1562 epithyme1585 podagry1657 devil's guts1670 love bush1814 love vine1833 flax-dodder1852 red tangle1857 fairies' hair1868 1868 Mem. & Proc. Manch. Literary & Philos. Soc. 103 197 Cuscuta epithymum, L. Covering the Gorse everywhere; it is called by the [Channel] islanders ‘Fairies' Hair’. 1883 H. Friend Flowers & Flower Lore i. 34 The good people in Jersey..call a certain flower (Cuscuta Epithymum) Fairies' Hair. 1914 Jrnl. Dept. Agric. Victoria 12 343 Cuscuta epithymum... Dodder... From its fine stems it is known in the Channel Islands as Fairies' Hair. < as lemmas |
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