| 单词 | fingers and toes |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfingers and toes fingers and toes n. (a) clubroot affecting turnips; (now usually in form finger and toe; also called anbury); (b) English regional bird's-foot trefoil, Lotus corniculatus (now rare). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > associated with particular type of plant > crop or food plant > vegetables > turnips or cabbages anbury1742 fingers and toes1799 club1830 club-root1832 clubbing1836 brown-heart1950 1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln vii. 136 They complain much of the distemper called fingers and toes; the root, instead of swelling, running into strings of that form, and rot, and come to nothing. 1833 London Med. & Physical Jrnl. 15 21 In Hampshire, the Lotus corniculatus is called dead-men's fingers, but in the vicinity of Bristol the plant has various names; fingers and toes, devil's fingers, devil's claws, and crow-toes. 1875 W. T. Thornton in Encycl. Brit. I. 367 The roots present a thickened, palmated appearance, giving rise to the popular name for the disease, ‘fingers and toes’. 1958 H. G. Sanders Outl. Brit. Crop Husbandry (ed. 3) 25 On land with a low lime reserve there was some danger of finger-and-toe disease on turnips. 1967 A. J. Huxley Mountain Flowers in Colour 268/2 L[otus] alpinus... alpine birdsfoot trefoil. The alpine form of the familiar ‘Eggs and Bacon’ or ‘Fingers and Toes’. 2014 R. A. T. George in R. A. T. George & R. T. V. Fox Dis. Temperate Hort. Plants xi. 171 (heading) Plasmodiophora brassicae Woronin, club root, finger-and-toe (Cercozoa). < as lemmas |
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