| 单词 | great mullein |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreat mullein 1. Any of various plants of the genus Verbascum (family Scrophulariaceae), typically with rosettes of greyish woolly leaves and tall erect racemes of flowers; esp. (in full common mullein, great mullein) the yellow-flowered V. thapsus.candlewick, moth, purple mullein: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Scrophulariaceae (figwort and allies) > [noun] > mullein feltwortc1000 verbascumOE Thapsusa1400 mullein?a1425 hag taper1526 high-taper1526 tapsebarbe1526 lungwort1538 torch1552 moth mullein1578 wolleyn1578 woollen1578 hedge-taper1579 wool-blade1585 bullock's lungwort1597 candlewick mullein1597 mullet1597 torch-herb1598 taperwort1601 torchwort1647 Jupiter's staff1664 cow's lungwort1777 shepherd's club1790 woollens1800 flannel-leaf1821 Adam's flannel1828 flannel-plant1849 king's taper1858 torch-blade1861 velvet-dock1863 Jacob's staff1879 shepherd's staff1882 wool-plant1883 shepherd's gourd1896 ?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 154 (MED) Þe croppes of moline smal grounden..is a good medycine. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 342 Moleyne [?a1475 Winch. Moleyn], herbe tapsus. c1450 Med. Recipes (BL Add. 33996) in F. Heinrich Mittelengl. Medizinbuch (1896) 120 Take molyn & styue hit in good red wyn. ?a1500 in G. Henslow Med. Wks. 14th Cent. (1899) 42 Take molyue [read molyne], hockys and sexfrage and make a lauoyre and do hit in a vessel hockys and sexfrage and þat he may sitte Inne. 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. G.vij Verbascum is called..in englishe Mullen higgis taper or Longe wurt. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. lxxxi. 118 There be foure sortes of Mulleyne,..wherof ye two first are white Mulleyne..: The third is blacke Mulleyne: The fourth is wilde Mulleyne. 1659 R. Lovell Παμβοτανολογια 318 The leaves of the common mullein are by the husband-men of Kent given to their cattle, against the cough. 1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Jupiter's Distaffe, a kind of Clary with a Yellow flower; it is otherwise called Mullein. 1782 J. Scott Poet. Wks. 97 And golden spikes the downy mulleins rear. 1799 C. B. Brown Edgar Huntly III. xxi. 34 A wild heath..adorned with the dry stalks of scented shrubs and the bald heads of the sapless mullen. 1851 H. B. Stowe Pearl of Orr's Island 8 Only savins and mullens with their dark pyramids or white spires of velvet leaves, diversified the sandy wayside. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. (at cited word) Great Torch Mullein, Verbascum thapsus. 1943 A. J. M. Smith Bk. Canad. Poetry v. 345 Here are signs that another has come this way: A broken mullein spike, a trodden leaf. 1958 R. Liddell Morea ii. i. 39 All over the plateau grow mulleins, bright yellow thistles, scabious and larkspur. 1991 Times 17 Sept. 16/2 The woolly spires of great mullein have grown to seven or eight feet in this summer of tall plants. < as lemmas |
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