| 单词 | goat leaf | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasgoat leaf   goat leaf  n. now rare a kind of honeysuckle, esp.  Lonicera caprifolium; = goat's leaf n. at  Compounds 3b.				 [Originally after Anglo-Norman chevrefoil and Old French chievrefueil (12th cent.; Middle French chièvrefueil  , French chèvrefeuille  ; itself after post-classical Latin caprifolium  caprifoil n.). In later use either directly after post-classical Latin caprifolium (also in scientific Latin as a specific epithet) or an alteration of goat's leaf n. at  Compounds 3b. Compare German Geißblatt (15th cent.).]			 ΚΠ a1275						 (?a1189)						    Marie de France Cheuerefoil 		(Harl. 978)	 f. 151v  				Gotelef lapelent en engleis Cheurefoil le nument en franceis. 1829    J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants 170  				Caprifolium. A poetical name, signifying goat-leaf; that is to say, a leaf which climbs like a goat. Chevrefeuille, Fr. 1904    J. M. Maxwell Children's Wild Flowers 119  				The pale perfoliate Lonicera..is sufficiently familiar to own a folk-name, that of ‘Goat leaf’, whether in allusion to its feats of climbing, or the partiality of these animals for its leaves. 2007    D. Squire Propagation Specialist 		(2008)	 45  				Goat-leaf Honeysuckle. See Lonicera caprifolium. < as lemmas | 
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