| 单词 | hazel rag |
| 释义 | > as lemmashazel rag hazel rag n. now historical lungwort, Lobaria pulmonaria; = hazelraw n.; cf. rag n.2 13. [The origin of the second element is uncertain; it may perhaps reflect an unattested by-form of Old English ragu lichen (see staneraw n. and compare hazelraw n.).] ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > lichen > [noun] > lungwort or lungs of oak hazel rag1565 lungwort1578 lightwort1587 tree lungwort1597 wood liverwort1597 oak-lungs1727 hazel crottles1772 hazelraw1777 lungs of oak1856 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Pulmonaria, after some lungeworte: after other haselragge. 1772 J. Rutty Ess. Nat. Hist. Dublin I. 141 [Lichenoides pulmonum reticulatum] was sent me from the North, under the name of Hazel-rag or Hazel-crottles, being found growing on the Hazel-tree and sometimes on the Apple-tree. 1849 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 18 Aug. 101/2 The lungwort, or hazel rag (Sticta pulmoacea),..is also boiled in ale by the Siberians instead of hops. 1991 E. M. Bolton Lichens for Veg. Dyeing (ed. 2) iv. 20 The Herefordshire country people used to dye their woollen stockings brown with this lichen [sc. Lobaria pulmonaria]. It was also used in the Lowlands of Scotland, as one of the crottles, and in Northern Ireland—where it is called Hazel-rag. < as lemmas |
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