| 单词 | fairy fingers |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfairy fingers fairy fingers n. (also fairies' fingers, fairy's fingers) colloquial and regional †(a) fossil belemnites (obsolete); (b) the foxglove, Digitalis purpurea, or its flowers. [With sense (b) compare Welsh bysedd yr ellyllon, lit. ‘(glove) fingers of the fairies’ (16th cent.); compare also Irish méirín sí, lit. ‘little fairy finger’méirín púca, lit. ‘little puck's finger’ (both 20th cent. or earlier) and other names relating to fingers.] ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > organism > fossil > [noun] > types of astroite1610 belemnite1646 mussel-stone1660 scallop-stone1668 trochite1676 conchite1677 ophiomorphite1677 pectinite1677 worm-stone1677 musculite1681 serpent-stone1681 sugar-plum1681 glossopetraa1684 ague shell1708 forket1708 mytilite1727 grit1748 phytolithus1761 fairy beads1767 fairy fingers1780 fairy arrow1794 gryphite1794 ram's horn1797 hysterolite1799 tubulite1799 thunder-pick1801 celleporite1808 ceraunite1814 seraph1822 serpulite1828 coprolite1829 subfossil1831 pencil1843 trigonellite1845 buccinite1852 rudist1855 guide fossil1867 witch's cradle1867 coccolith1868 fairy cheeses1869 discolith1871 Portland screw1871 spiniferite1872 cyatholith1875 cryptozoon1883 sabellite1889 palaeospecies1895 homoeomorph1898 rudistid1900 megafossil1932 scolecodont1933 macrofossil1937 hystrichosphere1955 palynomorph1961 acritarch1963 molecular fossil1965 mitrate1967 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Cephalopoda > [noun] > order Dibranchiata > section Decapoda > family Belemnitidae > member of fairy fingers1780 thunder-pick1801 belemnite1833 pencil1843 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > foxglove and allied flowers > foxglove foxglovec1000 London button1552 wine-pot herb1552 finger1562 finger flower1562 lady's glove1575 foxter1623 fox-finger1657 fox1684 bloody finger1789 witch bell1808 fairy fingers1811 fairy thimble1813 dead men's bells1818 witches' thimbles1820 fairy bells1821 fairy glove1841 flap-dock1846 cow-flop1847 pop-glove1847 lady's thimble1853 Scotch mercury1853 poppy1856 fairy petticoats1864 finger root1870 fairy weed1871 pop-dock1878 witches' bells1884 1780 J. A. de Luc Lettres Physiques et Morales II. xl. 414 On trouve aussi ce fossile [sc. bélemnite] jusques sur les côtes. Il y en a en abondance dans celles de Charmouth, dont les habitans les nomment fairies fingers. 1811 Belfast Monthly Mag. Dec. 511 Fairy Fingers (Digitalis purpurea) flowering. 1860 H. Keddie Wearing Willow vi. 84 Noble rods of purple lussmore—the dangerous fairies' fingers. 1952 R. L. Taylor Plants Colonial Days (1959) 39 Folk names are too numerous to list; most of them refer to the fingerlike shape of the corolla—fairy fingers, folks' gloves, and lady's thimble. 2007 D. Rayburn Let's get Natural with Herbs 192 Dead Men's Bells, Digitalis, Fairy's Fingers, Lion's Mouth, and Purple Foxglove. < as lemmas |
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