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单词 goat stones
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goat stones
goat stones n. now historical any of various European orchids originally regarded as members of a distinct genus Satyrium; = goat's stones n. at Compounds 3b.
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1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 160 The male Goate stones haue leaues like to those of the garden Lillie.
1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden cclxxviii It is called..in English Satyrion, Orchis, Doggestones, Goatestones, Foolestones [etc.].
1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum at Orchis The lesser, but true Goat-stones. The smell of this Orchis causeth its Name, which nearer resembles the rank Smell of a Goat.
1886 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Goatstones. The Orchis hircina, from the resemblance of their roots to the testicles of a goat.
1953 D. Eastwood Mirror of Flowers 27 The roots of the Lizard Orchis or Goat-stones boiled in milk and eaten with white pepper were particularly efficient.
2006 L. Adkins Wildflowers of Appalachian Trail (ed. 2) 134 The English variously called it ‘fool's ballocks’, ‘hares ballocks’, and ‘goat stones’.
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