Jacobaean.
/dʒakəˈbiːə/ 1. The ragwort, Senecio jacobæa, formerly called St. James's wort, or a related purple-flowered species from South Africa, S. elegans.
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groundsela700
ragwortc1300
bunweeda1525
senecio1562
St. James's wort1578
rugwort1592
felon-weed1597
staggerwort1597
staverwort1597
yellow-weed1597
ragweed1610
swine's grassa1697
hogs madder1707
sea-ragwort1736
dog standard1767
Jacobaea1789
swinecress1803
benweed1823
fly-dod1826
mountain groundsel1830
cushag1843
fairies' horse1866
Oxford ragwort1884
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 69 Jacobea. S. James' worte. Jacobea marina. S. James' worte of the Sea... The first kinde of S. James worte, hath long, browne, red, crested or straked stalkes.
1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum (at cited word) Jacobæa, in English, Ragwort, is of different Sorts.
1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum (at cited word) James-wort, or Ragwort, is Jacobæa, which see.]
1789 W. Aiton Hortus Kewensis III. 193 Elegant Groundsel, or Purple Jacobea. Nat[ive] of the Cape of Good Hope.
1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 69/2 Jacobæa, Purple. Senecio elegans.
c1903 E. T. Cook Cent. Bk. Gardening 27/1 The botanical name of the Jacobaea is Senecio elegans.
1972 W. T. Stearn in A. W. Smith's Gardener's Dict. Plant Names (rev. ed.) 371/3 Jacobea. Senecio jacobaea.
2. Jacobaea lily n. = Jacobean lily n. at Jacobean adj. 2b.
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summer fool1597
winter daffodil1615
Jacobaea lily1752
African tulip1759
Jacobean lily1770
haemanthus1771
alstroemeria1775
snowflake1777
chandelier lily1818
hippeastrum1821
clivia1828
Vallota1837
sprekelia1840
Murray lily1847
knight's star1855
Natal lily1855
Loddon lily1882
Peruvian lily1883
spider lily1887
1752 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 6) (at cited word) Amaryllis. The third Sort, which is commonly called Jacobæa-lily, is now become pretty common.
1770–74 A. Hunter Georgical Ess. (1803) III. 125 I have no where seen it more manifest than in the Jacobean Lily.
1789 W. Aiton Hortus Kewensis I. 416 Jacobea Lily. Nat[ive] of South America. Cult[ivated] 1658, in the Oxford garden.
1864 L. H. Grindon Brit. & Garden Bot. 644 Perhaps the commonest [Amaryllid] is the ‘Jacobæa-lily’, Amaryllis formosissima, easily told by its dark hue.
1962 Jrnl. Royal Hort. Soc. 87 284 (title) The Jacobaea Lily—Sprekelia formosissima.
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