| 单词 | goldilocks polytrichon |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgoldilocks polytrichon a. Any of various, usually yellow-flowered, plants; esp. (a) (more fully goldilocks polytrichon) the common hair moss, Polytrichum commune, which has golden-brown capsules (cf. golden maidenhair n. at golden adj. and n. Compounds 4a); (b) any of several plants with heads of button- or brush-like yellow flowers, belonging esp. to the genera Helichrysum and Filago (family Asteraceae ( Compositae)), spec. the everlasting plant Helichrysum stoechas; †(c) the globeflower Trollius europaeus (obsolete rare). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > buttercup and allied flowers > allied flowers githa1382 nigellaa1398 gollana1400 pilewort?a1425 gold-knop1538 fig-wort1548 lucken gowan1548 melanthion1559 gold crap1571 bachelor's buttons1578 celandine1578 gold cup1578 Goldilocks1578 nigel1578 nigelweed1578 troll flower1578 peppergrass1587 golden cup1589 globe crowfoot1597 globeflower1597 winter aconite1597 kiss-me-twice-before-I-rise1664 devil-in-a-bush1722 globe ranunculus1731 turban1760 love-in-a-mist1787 love-in-a-puzzle1824 fair-grass1825 water buttercup1831 golden knobs1835 ficary1848 New Year's gift1856 bishop wort1863 fennel-flower1863 golden ball1875 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. lxxi. 414 We may cal it in English Goldylockes Polytrichon. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 521 This Chrysocome, or Floramore (which may be englished Goldilockes, of his golden chaffie, or scalie locks). 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole xciii. 374 Candy Goldilockes hath two or three small slender white branches, set here and there very scatteringly, with small, long, narrow hoary leaues, hauing yellow heads of flowers at the tops. a1637 B. Jonson Pans Anniv. 30 in Wks. (1640) III Bring..Faire Oxe-eye, Goldy-locks, and Columbine. 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 902 Others yet advise to sow Goldilocks [L. chrysocomme] near where they [sc. bees] are. 1761 J. Hill Veg. Syst. III. 127 Wooly Headed Tanzy... Soft Goldilocks. Tanacetum annuum. 1832 J. Hodgson Hist. Northumberland: Pt. II II. 459 The plant which, as a boy, I was taught to call Locken Gowen, or Goudy Locks, is the Trolius europea of Botanists. 1845 Penny Cycl. Suppl. I. 655/2 G[naphalium] Stæchas of Linnæus, Goldilocks, the Helichrysum Stæchas, is mentioned by Theophrastus. 1880 W. Leighton Shakespeare's Dream 52 Stars of the celandine, Blue hyacinths more fine, And goldilocks. 1899 Gardening Illustr. 30 Sept. 395/3 The bright-yellow H[elichrysum] Stæchas..shares with Aster Linosyris the name of Goldilocks. 1913 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 33 209 He refers to a plate showing the plant known in English as Goldilocks. 1999 New Scientist 19 June 53/2 One of the largest species, and the one most commonly planted in Japanese Zen temples, is Polytrichum commune. Shaped like little caps, its gold spore cases have inspired no fewer than three new English names: common haircap, great golden maidenhair and great goldilocks. < as lemmas |
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