| 单词 | hoop-petticoat narcissus or daffodil |
| 释义 | > as lemmashoop-petticoat narcissus or daffodil 2. In full, hoop-petticoat narcissus or daffodil. A plant of the species Narcissus bulbocodium or N. cantabrica, so called from the shape of the yellow or white flowers. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > daffodil and allied flowers > daffodil or narcissus narcissusOE daffodil1548 laus tibi1548 affodill1551 primrose peerless1578 narciss1586 jonquil1629 Spanish trumpet1664 hoop-petticoat1731 poet's narcissus?1786 poet's daffodil1798 Queen Anne's double jonquil1806 polyanthus narcissus1841 tazetta1847 sweet Nancy1848 polyanth narcissus1856 pheasant's eye1872 peerless primrose1884 Tenby daffodil1884 Queen Anne's daffodil1889 poetaz1906 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. 35 Rush-leaf'd Daffadil, with very narrow Petals, and a large tubulous Cup, commonly call'd The Hoop-Petticoat. 1790 Bot. Mag. 3 tab. 88 (heading) Narcissus Bulbocodium. Hoop Petticoat Narcissus. 1841 J. W. Loudon Ladies' Compan. to Flower Garden 190/1 The genus Narcissus is a very extensive one, embracing, as it does, the Jonquils, the Polyanthus Narcissus, the little Hoop Petticoat, the Poet's Narcissus, and the Daffodils, besides numerous others. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Corbularia, a genus of amaryllids, commonly called Hoop-petticoats... C. Bulbocodium, the common Hoop-petticoat. 1889 J. Habberton in Harper's Mag. Feb. 367/1 The daffodil, the ‘pheasant-eye’, and the ‘hoop-petticoat’ are all narcissuses. 1934 E. A. Bowles Handbk. Narcissus xix. 211 It is hard to believe that the white Hoop Petticoat was ever found so far to the north as Cantabrica. 1952 C. E. L. Phillips Small Garden xiii. 164 The ‘hoop-petticoat daffodil’ (N. bulbocodium), 6 ins., like a little bugle with virtually no perianth. 1961 P. M. Synge Collins Guide to Bulbs 232 Bulbocodium group. These are the hoop petticoats and they are nearly all subsp., varieties or forms of N. bulbocodium, a very large and variable sp., the exception being the early white-flowered forms known as monophyllus and foliosus which have now been separated under the name N. cantabricus. 1970 C. Lloyd Well-tempered Garden 137 I dug up a congested clump of the hoop petticoat daffodil. < as lemmas |
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