单词 | fat-hen |
释义 | fat-henn. A name for certain plants of the Goosefoot tribe, Chenopodium Bonus-Henricus and Atriplex patula. Also, in Australia, applied to various species of Chenopodium and Atriplex which are eaten as vegetables. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Chenopodiaccae (goose-foot and allies) > [noun] > salt bush or orach milesOE orachea1300 golden herb1562 notchweed1659 sea pot-herb1706 lamb's quarter1773 butter leaves1789 fat-hen1795 mountain spinach1822 sea-orach1845 salt bush1863 1795 Trans. Soc. Arts 13 204 Chickweed, fumitory, fat-hen, and persicaria. 1847 F. W. L. Leichhardt Jrnl. Overland Exped. Austral. ii. 40 The fat-hen..grew abundantly on the reedy flats. 1853 G. Johnston Terra Lindisfarnensis I. 172 Atriplex patula, Fat Hen. 1863 in R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants (1879) 75. 1880 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 182 Fathen [printed falhen] (a kind of indigenous spinach). 1889 R. C. Praed Romance of Station 46 To gather fat-hen, to do duty as cabbage. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1795 |
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