单词 | gold flower |
释义 | gold flowern.1 1. The common or pot marigold, Calendula officinalis. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > composite flowers > marigold goldOE rudc1300 gold flowera1325 solseclea1350 rodeworta1398 marigolda1400 yellow-bottlea1400 yellow goldc1405 soussiea1425 solsequium1540 soucyc1550 sun's flower1568 solsequya1680 pot marigold1760 tagetes1792 calendula1871 a1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (Arun.) (1857) 162 Cy crest la flur de surcye [glossed] golde-flurs (solicle). ?c1450 in Anglia (1896) 18 310 Þe golde-flour is good to sene. 1919 Jrnl. Internat. Garden Club 3 359 The latter flower [sc. the marigold] was originally the Gold or the Gold flower, the ‘Spouse of the Sun’. 1922 E. Singleton Shakespeare Garden 191 Another old English name for the marigold was ruddes and a prettier one was the gold-flower. 1966 M. R. Krythe All about Months 180 It [sc. the marigold] was termed the ‘Bride of the Sun’, ‘Gold Flower’, and ‘Shining Herb’. 2007 G. Egan Shakespeare Edinb. Critical Guides 235 The word ‘gules’ is an heraldic term for red, but it was also an eighteenth-century spelling of ‘gold’ meaning marigold, the gold-flower. 2. British regional. The corn marigold, Glebionis segetum, or the ox-eye daisy, Leucanthemum vulgare. rare. ΚΠ 1929 H. Marwick Orkney Norn 64/1 Gull-flooer, yellow gowan or marguerite, ox-eye daisy. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 123/1 Gold flower, corn marigold. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1a1325 |
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