单词 | good king harry |
释义 | good King Harryn. Now rare. The plant good King Henry, Chenopodium bonus-henricus. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Chenopodiaccae (goose-foot and allies) > [noun] > goose-foot goose-foot1548 oak of Jerusalem1551 chenopod1555 oak of Paradise1578 stinking motherwort1578 allseed1597 chenopodium1597 good King Harry1597 stinking orach1597 sowbane1657 strawberry blite1753 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 259 Of English Mercurie... In Cambridgeshire it is called Good king Harry. 1810 Encycl. Londinensis IV. 403/2 Good Henry, good king Harry, or wild spinach: leaves triangular. 1832 E. Lankester Veg. Substances Food 272 ‘Good King Harry’..makes a very estimable spinach or asparagus in its native country. 1877 S. Hibberd Amateur's Kitchen Garden vii. 82 Good King Harry (Chenopodium Bonus Henricus)..is generally to be found in plenty as a weed on the rubbish heap. 1903 Naturalist Sept. 363 ‘Good King Harry’..is another useful plant that I often met with on this roadside. 2001 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Nexis) 20 Jan. 36 Years ago, when I gardened in Lincolnshire, all the old codgers grew Good King Harry, an ancient salad crop. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1597 |
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