| 单词 | hen and chicken daisy |
| 释义 | > as lemmashen and chicken daisy a. A variety or form of a flowering plant, esp. the common daisy ( Bellis perennis), in which multiple smaller flower heads grow from the edge of the main flower head. Chiefly as a modifier, esp. in hen and chicken daisy, hen and chickens daisy. Cf. childing adj. 3. ΚΠ 1717 R. Bradley New Improvem. Planting & Gardening: Pt. 2 vi. 109 The Hen and Chicken Dasy..has little Stalks of Flowers growing out of the main Blossoms. 1794 Bot. Mag. 7 227 In my garden at Lambeth-Marsh, I once had a daisy..which not only became proliferous, or of the hen and chicken kind, but its stalk also..became branched. 1884 H. W. V. Stuart Egypt xviii. 164 The curious compound daisy called Hen-and-chickens. 1891 Gardeners' Chron. 8 Aug. 159/1 Myosotis Victoria. The ‘Hen and Chickens’ Forget-me-Not..is of special interest just now when the question of the inheritance, or otherwise, of malformations is attracting so much attention among scientists. 1905 Garden Mag. Apr. 170/2 The hen-and-chickens daisy is one of the oldest and most interesting freaks in the vegetable kingdom. 2015 telegraph.co.uk (Nexis) 24 May Many plants held in this collection... such as the ‘hens and chickens’ double daisy, with one large flower and several smaller satellites, are rare. < as lemmas |
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