| 单词 | fairy lint |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfairy lint fairy lint n. now rare fairy flax, Linum catharticum. [Compare Scottish Gaelic lìon nam ban-sìth , lit. ‘flax of the fairy women’ (1883 or earlier; compare banshee n.), Welsh llin y tylwyth teg , lit. ‘flax of the fair kinsfolk’ (1813), although these may also be formed after English fairy flax n.] ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > rosaceous plants > [noun] > linum or fairy-flax mill-mountain1633 mountain flax1648 rupturewort1670 purging flax1684 fairy flax1737 mountain flax1841 purge flax1853 fairy lint1859 dwarf-flax1863 linum1867 1859 M. A. Denham Denham Tracts; N. of Eng. 5 The purging flax—Linum catharticum. The same with Fairy-lint. 1951 S. H. Bell December Bride ii. iii. 118 Over the wall of the rath between the roots of the thorns the white blossomed fairy lint broke in foam as though a sea of flowers tossed outside. 1986 C. McGlinchey et al. Last of Name x. 87 They gathered seven stalks of sidhe lint or fairy lint. < as lemmas |
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