| 单词 | jagged yellow rocket |
| 释义 | > as lemmasjagged yellow rocket yellow rocket n. †(a) (more fully jagged yellow rocket) Isle of Man cabbage, Coincya monensis subsp. monensis ( family Brassicaceae), a plant with small yellow flowers and pinnately lobed leaves, native to coastlines of the Irish Sea (obsolete); (b) a winter cress, esp. Barbarea vulgaris (originally in a cultivated form with double flowers) (now rare). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > leaf vegetables > winter-cress or land-cress winter cress1548 wound-rocket1548 herb St. Barbara1578 yellow rocket1670 land cress1856 1670 J. Ray Catal. Plantarum Angliæ 103 Eruca Monensis laciniata lutea. Jagged yellow Rocket of the Isle of Man. 1783 C. Bryant Flora Diætetica 100 There is a beautiful variety of this plant [sc. Erysimum barbarea] in gardens, with a double flower, and is generally called the yellow Rocket. 1799 Lady C. Murray Brit. Garden II. 547 S[isymbrium] Monense. Yellow Rocket... Flowers from June to August. Native to the Isle of Mann. 1802 C. Dibdin Observ. Tour Eng. II. lviii. 119 There is some novelty in the jagged yellow rocket, which I believe is natively a plant of the Isle of Man. a1832 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XVIII. 616/1 Erysimum officinale, Barbareum, a double variety is cultivated in gardens, and is called the Double Yellow Rocket. 2006 Jrnl. Torrey Bot. Soc. 133 537/2 Barbarea vulgaris R. Br. (Brassicaceae; yellow rocket) grows in dense patches that are conspicuous from roads bordering fields. < as lemmas |
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