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单词 graymill
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graymilln.

Brit. /ˈɡreɪmɪl/, U.S. /ˈɡreɪˌmɪl/
Forms: 1500s graymyle, 1500s 1800s graymil, 1500s– gray mile, 1500s– gray mill, 1500s– grummel, 1600s greimile, 1600s–1800s graymill, 1700s–1800s greymill, 1800s– grey mill.
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: gromwell n.
Etymology: Folk-etymological alteration of gromwell n. after grey adj. and either mile n.2 or mill n.3 Compare later grey millet n. at grey adj. and n. Compounds 1c(b).
Now rare.
The common gromwell, Lithospermum officinale. Cf. grey millet n. at grey adj. and n. Compounds 1c(b).
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milium solis?c1729
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1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. E.iv Lithospermon is called of the Herbaries Milium solis, in englishe Grummel, but it shoulde be called Gray myle.
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Lithospermum..Some take it to be grummell, or gray mile.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxvii. xi. 284 Of all hearbs that be, there is none more wonderfull than Greimile.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Gremil, the hearb Gromill, Grummell, or Graymill.
1732 J. Martyn tr. J. P. de Tournefort Hist. Plants Paris II. 89 Lithospermum minus... Gromwell or rather Gromill, or Graymill. By way sides in many places.
1757 W. Watson in Philos. Trans. 1756 (Royal Soc.) 49 814 [Leicestershire plants] Gromwell, Gromil, or Graymill.
1800 J. E. Smith Flora Britannica I. 213 Lithospermum officinale... Common Gromwell. Gray Mill. Grey Millet.
1860 Amer. Farmer's Encycl. 594/1 The common gromwell (L. officinale), gromill, gray-mill, or gray millet.
1900 M. V. de la Cadena et al. New Pronunc. Dict. Spanish & Eng. Lang. 402/2 Lágrima... 3. (Bot.) Gray-mill, gromwell. Lithospermum.
1947 E. H. Hausman Illustr. Encycl. Amer. Wild Flowers 29/1 Common Gromwell (Lithospermum officinale)... Another common name is: Gray-mile.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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