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单词 fuller's weed
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fuller's weed
fuller's weed n. Obsolete (a) [after post-classical Latin herba fullonia (16th cent. or earlier; compare herba fullonum (see fuller's herb n.))] soapwort, Saponaria officinalis; (b) = fuller's teasel n.
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1587 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnius Herbal for Bible x. 56 Of the Herb Borith,..which we call Sopewort, or Fullers weede [L. herba fullonia].., bicause the iuice there-of will mundifie and scowre like Sope.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Fullers-Weed, or Fullers-thistle, an Herb.
1888 D. Milne Eng. Dict. 19/1 The teasel plant or fuller's-weed bears a large burr or flowery head, and is covered with prickly hooked awns.
1913 C. G. Herbermann et al. Catholic Encycl. XII. 151/2 St. Jerome in his Commentary on Jer., ii, 22, identifies borith with the ‘fuller's weed’, which was not used, like the Dipsacus fullonum..to dress cloth, but to wash it... The plant grew on rich, damp soil, which description applies to a species of Saponaria.
1922 A. C. Hottes Little Bk. Annuals 104 Teazle (Fuller's Weed). The Teazles of our roadsides are prickly and forbidding but nevertheless interesting when Winter comes.
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