单词 | helleborine |
释义 | helleborinen. Any of various orchids that were formerly thought to resemble the white hellebore ( Veratrum album); (later) spec. those in the related genera Epipactis and Cephalanthera (both originally included in Serapias), which usually have tall slender stems and are typically found in temperate broad-leaved woodland. Frequently with distinguishing word. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Orchidaceae family or members > [noun] helleborine1597 Serapias1597 frog orchis1688 anguloa1819 dragon's-claw1832 saccolabium1850 coral-root1854 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 357 Helleborine is like vnto white Hellebore, and for that cause we haue giuen it the name of Helleborine. 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. iv. 78 Helleborine, Bastard white Hellebore. 1718 J. Lawrence Gardening Improv'd 77 The Lady's Slipper, (so call'd from the Resemblance the Blossom bears to a Slipper) an Helleborine, is much valu'd by most Florists. 1748 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 45 159 This Plant produces the most elegant Flower of all the helleborine Tribe... The North American Indians..call it the Mocasin Flower. 1778 G. White Let. 3 July in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 236 Serapias latifolia, helleborine. 1833 W. J. Hooker Suppl. Smith & Sowerby's Eng. Bot. II. 2775 Purple-leaved Helleborine..was discovered in Worcestershire in 1807. 1869 J. T. B. Syme Sowerby's Eng. Bot. (ed. 3) IX. 128 Cephalanthera rubra, Red Helleborine. 1900 Daily Express 22 June 2/7 I was surprised..to find the large white helleborine..flowering in plenty. 1951 V. S. Summerhayes Wild Orchids Brit. vii. 123 The helleborines have rather tall slender stems. 1988 W. Horwood Duncton Quest xx. 251 And sun slanted through the wood, catching the white flowers of helleborine there, flower of mourning, flower of death. 2000 Guardian 23 Aug. i. 20/3 Violet helleborine is flowering now on damp steep banks in Edge Wood where wild garlic died back leaving bare earth under full shade. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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