| 单词 | apple pie plant |
| 释义 | > as lemmasapple pie plant 2. More fully apple pie plant. Great willowherb, Epilobium hirsutum, which has pink flowers with creamy-white stigmas; also called codlins-and-cream. Now English regional.In quot. 1999: hemp agrimony, Eupatorium cannabinum. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Onagraceae (willow-herbs) > [noun] willow-herb1578 bindweed nightshade1597 enchanter's nightshade1597 rosebay1597 willow1597 French willow1601 willow-flower1633 rose withy1650 codlings-and-cream1670 willow weed1741 gooseberry fool1785 epilobium1809 onagrad1846 cherry-pie1857 apple pie plant1858 slink-weed1858 fiddle-grass1878 epilobe1883 satin flower1891 1858 C. C. Wilkinson Weeds & Wild Flowers 164 Willow-herb, Codlins and Cream, Apple-Pie-Plant... Epilōbium. 1859 L. H. Grindon Manch. Flora 282 A noble and conspicuous flower..with a smell of baked apples, whence it [sc. great crimson willow-herb] is often called, in the country, ‘Apple pie’. 1861 P. Lankester Wild Flowers 52 Willow-herb..Applepie Plant. 1923 E. Gepp Essex Dial. Dict. (ed. 2) 14 Apple-pie, the Great Willow-herb, so called from the smell of the flowers. 1955 G. Grigson Englishman's Flora 196 The rosy and white combination in the flowers..may have suggested the name Codlins-and-cream, which in turn suggested other fruit names, Apple-pie, Gooseberry-pie, and Cherry-pie. 1999 R. Malster Mardler's Compan. 10 Apple-pie, hemp agrimony..in Norfolk, but the Rev Edward Gepp found that in his part of Essex, not far from Dunmow, it was the great willowherb. < as lemmas |
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