| 单词 | gentleman's buttons |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgentleman's buttons b. Chiefly in plural and with distinguishing word. In the names of various herbaceous plants having button-like flowers or seed vessels; (occasionally also) the flowers or seed vessels of such a plant, as Barbary buttons, gentleman's buttons, etc.billy button, bachelor's buttons, beggar's buttons, London buttons, Quaker buttons: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > medicks medick?1440 snail clover1548 heart trefoil1597 snails1629 melilot trefoil1677 Barbary buttons1712 black-seed1763 snail-plant1767 black medick1778 heart liver1792 snail-shell medick1796 spotted medick1825 hop1866 Calvary clover1882 1552 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Baccharis apud Ruellium, is supposed to be the flower called London button. 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole lxxix. 339 Medica lata. Broade Buttons. 1665 J. Rea Flora i. xxii. 198 Snails, or Button...The vessels..in some are like a Snails house.., some like small Buttons. 1712 J. Petiver in Philos. Trans. 1710–12 (Royal Soc.) 27 386 Round Snails or Barbary Buttons. 1878 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names 202 Gentleman's Buttons, the flowers of Scabiosa succisa, L. 1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. 23 Our pigs raved all the garden up, all but the Buttons. 1902 Gardeners' Chron. 1 Feb. 69/2 There are other Buttons with distinctive appellations, instances of which are Barbary Buttons, Cockle Buttons, and Soldiers' Buttons. 1953 N.Y. Times 16 Aug. x. 32 Equally vivid along the road and in winter bouquets is the pungent herb called tansy or bitter buttons. 2010 K. D. Cutler et al. Herb Gardening for Dummies (ed. 2) 265 A plant with nicknames as diverse as cockle buttons, beggar's buttons, hareburr, and love leaves (not to mention pig's rhubarb) has to have a mixed reputation. < as lemmas |
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