| 单词 | jack-by-the-hedge |
| 释义 | > as lemmasjack-by-the-hedge jack-by-the-hedge n. garlic mustard, Alliaria petiolata. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > hedge-garlic sauce-alone1530 jack of the hedge1538 jack-by-the-hedge1578 garlic treaclewort1597 poor man's treacle1611 jack-in-the-hedge1675 garlic-mustard1861 Jack-in-the-bush1872 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 639 In Englishe Sauce alone, and Iacke by the hedge. 1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xxiii. 222 Jack by the hedge... Country men do boil it and eat it in stead of Garlick, being no less strengthened and nourished by it then the Persian children were with Town-cresses. 1771 J. Robertson Jrnl. 7 June in D. M. Henderson & J. H. Dickson Naturalist in Highlands (1994) vi. 155 On the outside of the garden at Abergaldie I saw the sweet Cicely or Myrrh, Musk-mallow, common mallow, Ever-green Bugle, and Jack by the Hedge. 1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. xxv. 627 Jack by the Hedge, or Sauce Alone..was a favourite condiment. 2015 Times 21 May 29/1 A common flower now along the lanes is garlic mustard, or jack-by-the-hedge. < as lemmas |
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