| 单词 | fuller's thistle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfuller's thistle fuller's thistle n. = fuller's teasel n. [Originally after classical Latin spīna fullōnia (see fuller's thorn n.); in later use after post-classical Latin cardo fullonum (1517 or earlier), carduus fullonius (1546 or earlier).] ΚΠ 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xvi. xliv. 496 The like is to be said of Hippopheston, which groweth upon the Fullers thorne or thystle [L. quod vero in spina fullonia hippophaeston]: it beareth certaine little heads and hollow knobs.., small leaves, and a white root. 1605 J. Mosan tr. C. Wirsung Gen. Pract. Physick sig. Iii Carduus Fullonius, Dipsacus, Fullers Thistle. 1741 J. Ozell tr. J. Pitton de Tournefort Voy. Levant (new ed.) III. 87 All these parts sustains Tops like those of the Fuller's Thistle [Fr. Chardon à Bonnetier], two inches and a half long, and one and a half diameter. 1831 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Agric. (ed. 2) 918 The fuller's thistle is an herbaceous biennial, growing from four to six feet high. 1911 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 60 128/2 The teasel—fuller's weed, or fuller's thistle, as it is sometimes called—is still cultivated in France. 2001 W. W. Weaver Sauer's Herbal Cures 145 Many botanists now believe that the fuller's thistle is simply a variety of Dipsacus sylvestris, since the distinctively crooked spines disappear on fuller's thistle if it reverts to the wild state. < as lemmas |
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