| 单词 | golden alexanders |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgolden alexanders 2. Chiefly North American. Any of various North American plants of the family Apiaceae ( Umbelliferae), which are thought to resemble European alexanders; spec. (a) any of several plants of the genus Zizia, esp. (more fully golden alexanders) the yellow-flowered Z. aurea; (b) a wild angelica, Angelica atropurpurea. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Umbelliferae (umbellifers) > [noun] > other umbellifers hemlocka700 petroselinumOE parsleya1300 wild parsleya1300 parsnip1538 lovage1548 hartwort1562 meadow parsnip1562 ass-parsley1598 honewort1633 alexanders1637 dead-tongue1688 ajowan1773 Arracacha1823 pepper saxifrage1824 mock bishop-weed1848 pepper-and-salt1861 square parsley1866 ass's parsley1879 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > medicinal and culinary plants > medicinal and culinary plant or part of plant > [noun] > angelica angelica1527 lungwort1552 Holy Ghost1562 alexanders1637 jellico1853 archangel1855 1637 T. Morton New Eng. Canaan ii. iii. The country there naturally affordeth very good pot-herbes and sallet herbes..as potmaioram, tyme, alexander, angelica..in very great abundance. 1789 W. Aiton Hortus Kewensis I. 362 [Smyrnium] aureum... Golden Alexanders... Nat. of North America. 1821 Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. 9 156 Plants, which are indigenous to in the township of Middlebury, [Vermont, include]..Alexanders. 1831 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 21 384 Alexanders, an umbelliferous plant. 1898 W. A. Kellerman Text-bk. Elem. Bot. 249 Zizia cordata..Heart-leaf Alexanders.—Radical leaves mostly long-petioled, cordate or even rounder, crenately toothed. 1918 H. A. Gleason Plants Mich. 81 Golden Alexander, Taenidia integerrima... Golden Alexander, Zizia aurea... Zizia cordata. 1969 E. Partridge From Sanskrit to Brazil 2 In the United States, alexanders (loosely, alexander) has, for some three centuries, designated the meadow parsley; we hear of ‘golden alexanders’ and ‘purple alexanders’. 1982 W. L. Heat Moon Blue Highways x. iv. 410 At Cincinnati, I looped the city fast on the interstate and came to Indiana 56, where corn, tobacco, and blue-sailor grew to the knee, and also wild carrot, fleabane, golden Alexander. 1988 Kerville (Texas) Daily Times 27 Dec. 3/3 An American species [of angelica] is the great angelica (A. atropurpurea), commonly known as alexanders. 2009 S. T. Runkel & D. M. Roosa Wildflowers Tallgrass Prairie (ed. 2) 13 Golden alexanders (Zizia aurea) looks like a finely formed, more delicate type of wild parsnip (Thaspium). < as lemmas |
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