| 单词 | hogwort |
| 释义 | > as lemmashogwort hogwort n. †(a) a European plant, perhaps cow parsnip, Heracleum sphondylium (obsolete rare); (b) North American the plant woolly croton, Croton capitatus (formerly Heptalon graveolens; family Euphorbiaceae), found chiefly in the southern and eastern United States.Sense (a) is apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1805 T. Lewis Welsh-Eng. Dict. 209/1 Llyniau'r moch, hogwort. 1846 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 6) 381/2 Hogwort, Heptallon graveolens. 1935 W. C. Muenscher Weeds 329 Hogwort. A native annual, frequently encroaching on sandy fields. 1992 H. Mitchell One Man's Garden iii. 56 The hogwort..is a splendid weed of precisely the sort I cannot resist, and through incredible good fortune I have been given two young plants. < as lemmas |
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