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单词 fairy weed
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fairy weed
fairy weed n. Irish English the foxglove, Digitalis purpurea, or its flowers. [Compare Irish lus na mban sí (formerly lus na mban sídhe ; compare banshee n.), Scottish Gaelic lus nam ban-sìth (1832 or earlier), both lit. ‘plant of the fairy women’; compare also Early Irish lus síde kind of (unspecified) magical herb, lit. ‘fairy plant’.]
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1871 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 6 135 In Anglo-Irish we call it [sc. the foxglove]..fairy weed.
1996 G. Dunwich Wicca Garden iii. 52 The foxglove..has many fairy-inspired nicknames, including fairy fingers, fairy's caps, fairy weed, fairy's thimbles, fairy petticoats, and fairy's glove.
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