| 单词 | great tornesol |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreat tornesol b. The plant Heliotropium europæum, the great tornesol of Lyte's Herbal; sometimes used by modern botanists as a name for the genus Heliotropium. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Boraginaceae (bugloss and allies) > [noun] > heliotropes heliotropec1000 sunflower1562 turnsole1578 heliotropian1590 sun-seeker1847 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xli. 60 The great Tornesol hath straight round stalkes, couered with a white hearie cotton... The floures be white, at the toppe of the stalke, growing thicke togither in rewes. 1604 B. Jonson His Pt. Royall Entertainem. 171 Agrypnia. or Vigilance, in yellow,..her Chaplet of Heliotropium, or Turnsole. 1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 142 The Famous Plant, call'd Heliotrope, Turn-Sole, or Sun-Flower. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Heliotropium The great Turnsole of Dioscorides. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Heliotropium Blue American Turnsole, with Clary Leaves. a1832 J. Bentham Deontol. (1834) I. i. 20 Let the moralist regard the great Deontological law, as steadily as the Turnsole looks upon the sun. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 576/2 The Heliotrope or Turnsole, is a large genus of Ehretiaceæ... They are herbs or undershrubs found chiefly in tropical and subtropical regions, but a few species reach Europe, and one, H[eliotropium] europæum, is distributed over..southern and central Europe. 1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 388 Indian Turnsole (Heliotropium indicum, L.).—Small annual. < as lemmas |
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